Joy is an easy thing to lose, but it’s also an easy thing to get back. After you admit that you’ve lost your joy, you need to analyze the cause. You have to look at your life and ask yourself, “How did I lose my joy? What is robbing my joy?” The Bible tells us many times in Scripture to examine our lives. Lamentations 3:40 says, “Let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord” (NLT). There are hundreds of killjoys in life, but the two most common I see in people’s lives are an unbalanced schedule and unused talent. You have to have a balance between rest and work, input and output. And you have to use your unique, God-given talents, or you’re going to get frustrated. Take whatever percent of your talent that’s not being used in your job and use it for ministry. If you’re in a job that uses less than 25 percent of your talent, then get out. Once you’ve figured out how you lost your joy, you need to correct what’s wrong. Do you know what will rob your joy faster than anything else? When you know the right thing to do and you don’t do it.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:22:26 +0000
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