This entry is not directed at one person, but a generation. I am growing tired of this down and gloomy Christianity. I read peoples status on facebook and it seems the world is falling. I talk to people and they think their life just stinks. I am listening some of the new music and the message seems to be that everything is wrong and there is no answer. So I guess if there no hope we should all gather together Sunday night, drink the Kool-Aid, and end it all.
The problem with that is there is hope. There is a reason to be full of joy. There is a reason to get up each day and be excited. That reason is because Christ lives in us. Our joy is not contingent on external circumstances. Jesus described it as building your house on the Rock. If your foundation and source is anything but Jesus, it will fail. No relationship, success, sport, activity, amount of sex, drugs, alcohol, or anything else can every fill you up. NOTHING will ever fill you up from the outside. Your source of life and joy must come from the inside. Jesus described it as a spring that will always be there.
My greatest fear in this movement of "gloom" is what message it sends. Why would anyone want to follow us? Why would anyone want Jesus? Why in the world would anyone trade their life for ours? To be honest...the way we are presenting the Christian life...it would be foolish.
You have a choice. Wake up each day and belive this whole thing is about you or live for something that is actually worth your life. It is you life...it is the reason you are alive. You have to fight for joy. It is not easy. Make no mistake. The enemy is after your joy.
WAKE UP! IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU! GO...LIVE...BE
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I have found joy this week, even though it never left. You see, to me, Jesus=Joy. With Jesus comes joy. Jesus is always there holding joy in His hands, we just stray from Him. We chase other "stuff"(crap is what it is!)
As you know, I have been going through some "crap" this week. With the help of you and your lovely wife, I have come back to the joy. It's there, we just have to embrace it.
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