iShineInMinistry

What are you encountering today? Is life all glitter and rainbows or do you just want to stay in bed and never come out? Are you sitting on top of the world…or in the fetal position on your floor trying to get through this thing called life? We can find ourselves in different seasons, mountains, valleys and everything in between so quickly. The best day ever can turn into the most heartbreaking moment of our life in no time flat – we have all been there.

 

 

 

This is our life cycle, but we don’t have to let our emotions get the best of us, our circumstances dictate how we respond to life or what’s in front of us decide if we are going to be joyful or not. We can go to the Maker of heaven and earth with joy, anger, broken hearts, excitement and expectancy, questions, doubts and anything else that is in the confines of our hearts. Then…we can pour it all out to Him (one time or one hundred times) and let Him be our blessed hope.

 

 

 

We don’t have to let the “good moments” be the only moments when we are sparkling with joy overflowing. But in those moments, we still need to remember that God, not the fab thing, person or circumstance that is before us, is our source of contentment. Then, when the clouds roll in (and they will)…we can still rest on that truth.

 

 

 

Please take a moment to read this Psalm – maybe even write it down somewhere so you see it often (perhaps on your bathroom mirror) and let it remind us of where our strength, hope, faith, love and peace will always rest in – the Lord! He is faithful, He is wonderful, He is with us…and we can serve Him with gladness, seek Him with joy, worship Him with thanksgiving and know that He is our God.

 

 

 

Psalm 100 (ESV)

 

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

 

Serve the Lord with gladness!

 

Come into his presence with singing!

 

Know that the Lord, he is God!

 

It is he who made us, and we are his;

 

we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

 

Enter his gates with thanksgiving,

 

and his courts with praise!

 

Give thanks to him; bless his name!

 

For the Lord is good;

 

his steadfast love endures forever,

 

and his faithfulness to all generations.

 

 

 

Be blessed as you walk with Him today…keep those #greatexpectations because He will do it!

 

 

 

Hearts and Hugs,

 

Jacquelynn Marie