By Olubunmi Adebayo
*Several people are outside there who are sad, some very sad.*
*Such people focus on the negative sides and drives of life. If they are happy this moment, they will come up with why they should be sad the next moment.*
*This category of people are either unmindful or are entirely unaware that one of the greatest secrets of living is what is called “the Joy of the Lord.”*
*Normally this type of joy does not come to a fellow based on material things and ephemeral considerations. It comes only and if you have an understanding of Who God is, and you have a relationship of acceptance with Him.*
*Hear the expression clearly put below please :*
*Nehemiah 8: [10 ]Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; _for the joy of the LORD is your strength_.*
*Without this joy of the Lord, a man is burdened down, and is totally encumbered in the daily journey of life.*
*One of the methods that could be employed to slow us down in our life activities and endeavours, is when we don’t have within us the joy we are supposed to have.*
*Some people are struggling under marital burdens, therefore their joy is affected.*
*For some, it is financial burdens that are confronting them, and they are affected.*
*While for some, their own is career burdens.*
*Some of us today are busy focusing on some of our classmates in the university or secondary school days that have made such great career progress that their successes have become a needless burden on us.*
*Some, they see people who are not as smart or as intelligent as them who have gone quite far ahead of them.*
*Please be rest assured that there will always be troubling issues or in the light of the above, people who are ahead of you, while some will be behind you in life.*
*While those ahead of you should serve as a reminder that you too can go far in your chosen career or business, those behind you should give you reasons to appreciate God for how far He has brought you.*
*If you are the type that is deeply unhappy about where you are placed on the ladder of life, be careful so that the devil does not play on you his joker of making you needlessly or perpetually unhappy.*
*Always remember that whenever you lack the joy of the Lord, you are gravitating towards disillusionment. And no man makes progress who is ever disillusioned.*
*In the same token, no man will ever head in the right direction who is not himself due to the frustrations of life.*
*Are your efforts not yielding commensurate results according to your expectations or input?*
*Though there are situations in which someone may be negligent, or perhaps lazy, but a man may still not be either of the above, and still not be where he should be in life.*
*Whatever may be the situation with you, just start out by embracing Jesus as your personal Lord and Saviour. Thereafter, be sure to encourage yourself that where you are now is not the end of your life, and that if you walk in the Way and in the Will of God, this Joy from the Lord will also fill your heart.*
Top of the day to you 👍
©️ Olubunmi S Adebayo.
