"this is the day the lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." -Psalm 118:24.
attempting to live each day with this attitude is tough. I can usually start the day remembering this truth and wake up thanking the lord for a new day but then as the day progresses, satan can and will use any situation to try and take my joy away. sometimes he succeeds. sometimes he doesn't. the days when he is most successful are the days i fail to spend time with jesus. they are the days when i lose focus on all the blessings i have so graciously been given without deserving any of them. god's grace and mercy are so abundant and unfathomable but one negative thought or situation has the potential to make me lose sight of his truths and his love.
i desire not only to be content and happy each and every day but i desire something more. I desire joy. yes, they're different. i'm not saying we shouldn't display the emotion of happiness but we can be happy because of a specific situation or lose that happiness when something "bad" happens. however, joy is a fruit of abiding in christ and his love. this joy, unlike happiness, shouldn't be absent in the midst of trials and tribulations. our emotions are so finicky and always changing but god's word and his promises are always the same and should be the foundation for our thoughts and actions.
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us." -Romans 5:1-5
so often, i let satan use my sinful, human emotions to control my thoughts and actions. instead, i should be letting god's truths do that.
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