Where Does Your Joy Come From?

When you start each day, where does your Joy come from?

Who or what is your source of Joy and Hope?

In Nehemiah 8:10  it says, “Don’t be dejected and sad, for the Joy of the Lord is your strength.”

It is so easy to get dejected and down through life struggles. I have learned this first hand and I have had to make a choice.

Yes, that’s right, you can choose a life filled with Joy.

I choose Jesus in my life for he is my source of Joy and Strength.

So let me ask you again, when life struggles come, and they will, who or what is your source of Joy and Hope?

Each day we are filled with so many choices for life, family, business. An article by Amanda Reill in the Harvard Business Review says, “Various sources suggest that the average adult makes 33,000 to 35,000 total decisions each day.”

Moment by moment you make choices and a lot of what you choose is based on your perspective.

I speak about the Power of Perspective. One of my favorite quotes is by Joni Eareckson Tada. She says, “Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.”

We all experience challenges and that is really a defining moment for each of us. 

So my question is, “Are You Choosing Joy?”

Even when it is hard, you can choose it. 

Joy is not always being happy, but choosing a Joy Perspective is knowing that you will make it through your challenges and that there are better things ahead. Having Hope and knowing that you will make it.

Philippians 4:13 says, “For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.”

For me that means if I choose to live for Jesus. He will guide me and direct me and give me Joy and Strength. 

You are faced with up to 35,000 choices each day and how you make them shapes your life. 

“Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.” - John C. Maxwell

To be filled with Joy or not is a choice we make every moment of every day. 

You can choose Joy. 

Ask yourself, what is your source of Joy?

Remember, You can Live the Life You Choose!

Blessings!

For more information on Russ Hedge go to www.russhedge.com

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