Know What Counts
When the angel announced the birth of Jesus to the shepherds on the hill he said, "I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people....He is Christ the Lord."(Luke 2:10-11)
How is your joy doing? Is it great or not so great? Is your level of happiness going up and down with the stock market? Are you struggling this week? Many are, Christians and unbelievers alike. It is easy to get caught up in looking for happiness in situations over the joy that comes from having a supernatural delight in God and His love for us. The devil wants us to believe that God's love for us is not enough. Our human nature drives us to seek comfort through the approval of others and our own success as determined by the world in which we live.
It is easy to forget that we are aliens (1 Pet 2:11) to this planet and God's provision for joy is not the same as the world's answer for happiness. The world says that in order to be happy we need physical pleasure or comfort derived from things like sex, security, popularity, and the freedom to be who we want to be. God, on the other hand, through Jesus Christ provides love, trust, peace, and the freedom to live without the guilt of sin and the knowledge, through faith, that we have great value. God provides the promise that when we are through with our time on planet earth we will spend eternity experiencing the rewards passed down to the children of God.
Joy is a matter of the condition of the heart that is the result of God's investment in us and not the rise and fall of the economy and our investment in the stock market.
This Sunday we will continue in our study of the book of Philippians called "EPIC Joy". (Phil 3:1-11) "The Joy of Knowing What Counts"
If you are part of the LCC family I look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Bring a friend.
For the rest of you, thanks for your friendship and your prayers and support of the ministries of LCC.
How is your joy doing? Is it great or not so great? Is your level of happiness going up and down with the stock market? Are you struggling this week? Many are, Christians and unbelievers alike. It is easy to get caught up in looking for happiness in situations over the joy that comes from having a supernatural delight in God and His love for us. The devil wants us to believe that God's love for us is not enough. Our human nature drives us to seek comfort through the approval of others and our own success as determined by the world in which we live.
It is easy to forget that we are aliens (1 Pet 2:11) to this planet and God's provision for joy is not the same as the world's answer for happiness. The world says that in order to be happy we need physical pleasure or comfort derived from things like sex, security, popularity, and the freedom to be who we want to be. God, on the other hand, through Jesus Christ provides love, trust, peace, and the freedom to live without the guilt of sin and the knowledge, through faith, that we have great value. God provides the promise that when we are through with our time on planet earth we will spend eternity experiencing the rewards passed down to the children of God.
Joy is a matter of the condition of the heart that is the result of God's investment in us and not the rise and fall of the economy and our investment in the stock market.
This Sunday we will continue in our study of the book of Philippians called "EPIC Joy". (Phil 3:1-11) "The Joy of Knowing What Counts"
If you are part of the LCC family I look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Bring a friend.
For the rest of you, thanks for your friendship and your prayers and support of the ministries of LCC.
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