Choosing Joy

Always be joyful. 

Never stop praying. 

Be thankful in all circumstances,

 for this is God’s will for you 

who belong to Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

Always joy?

Always pray?

Thankful always?

How is that possible?

Christ in me.

Pure and simple.

He alone is adequate

to face every situation. 

He is alive in me. 

My joy comes when I remember that.

As I rely on Him

and seek to be available to Him

I am talking to Him more.

Praying more.

He is enough.

That's where the thankfulness comes from.

Thankful that He is able.

I don't have to be.

Lord, please help me walk in this truth,

because this is where 

joy, prayer and thanksgiving come from - 

faith in You.

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"God is limited only by the measure of our 

availability to all that He makes available

to us for in Him dwells 

all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; 

and you are complete in Him

(Colossians 2:9-10)."

-- The Indwelling Life of Christ

by Major W. Ian Thomas