Sails Set Toward Joy
I have discovered that a joyful countenance has nothing to do with one's age or one's occupation (or lack of it) or one's geography or education or marital status or good looks or circumstances.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
I have discovered that a joyful countenance has nothing to do with one's age or one's occupation (or lack of it) or one's geography or education or marital status or good looks or circumstances.
Maybe you've never before stopped to consider that God is committed to one major objective in the lives of all His people: to conform us to "the image of His Son."
External beauty is ephemeral. Internal beauty is eternal. The former is attractive to the world; the latter is pleasing to God.
All these earthly struggles that occur are no accident. God is in the midst of them, working out His sovereign will.
Discipleship refuses to let us skate through life tossing around a few religious comments while we live as we please.
Happiness is for today. Joy is available now. We are not to put it on hold.
I'm convinced that one of the reasons we are so lax in prayer is that we have never prepared a place to meet with God.
Knowing your child takes time, careful observation, diligent study, prayer, concentration, help from above, and, yes, wisdom.
God's voice isn't all that difficult to hear. In fact, you almost have to be closing your eyes and stopping your ears to miss it.
There's an old Swedish motto that hangs in many a kitchen: "Shared joy is a double joy. Shared sorrow is half a sorrow."