1 Thessalonians 5:16 “Rejoice always”
Rejoice always seems simple enough but not always easy. Depending on what is going on in your life at the present moment, rejoicing might seem like the last thing you want to do. This word isn’t very common in todays world, we just don’t hear it a lot. It shows up a lot in the bible but I just don’t hear it spoke of very often. Such a powerful definition; to feel joy or delight now who doesn’t want more of that?
It seems with so many things going on in the world today joy just seems to have taken a back seat. I do understand that there are times when we don’t feel joy because of a something happened in you life that causes pain or sorrow and we must acknowledge and process that. And it has been a long season in dealing with this COVID virus and has taken a toll on many of us causing us to loose our joy. And I am not saying we should suppress any of our other feelings because they have to be expressed also, but we definitely don’t need to continue in them forever. I have been dealing with this also in my life, I thought for quite awhile that we were eventual going to go back to normal. I mean this COVID thing was going run its course just like all those other viruses did and we would be back to the way things were. Wrong, according to scientists this virus is way different. Now I am not here to debate the virus I am only discussing how I had miss place my joy for awhile and understand how you could have to.
But this word rejoice has some power to it. Let’s look at the first part of the word, re- mean; once more, afresh. So it seems like a perfect fit for all of us that are experiencing some sort to of other emotion that we cannot seem to shake. We can once more start to feel joy, we can rejoice.. Now as I started in the beginning of this chapter its not always easy. One big thing that has helped me is to move my body or change the expression on my face, smile and do it with intention. And that means do it with purpose, think about it while you are doing the movement or the expression. This will help take your mind off whatever emotion you where stuck in. Then as you are moving or smiling replace that old emotion with something you can laugh about, some thing good that happened or some thing you are grateful for and now how are you feeling? Are you rejoicing? Have you once more found your joy?
Now I am not saying we are going to be rejoicing all the time or that we should even be, but I just feel its time to start rejoicing more often or once more. God want us to experience joy in this world and he want us to spread that to others so maybe today you can share a smile to a stranger today and it would make they’re day better.
Well again, thanks so so much for stopping by we really I mean really appreciate your time. So now we ask, are you going to….. Take it or let it go? Hope you have aTERRIFIC day and fill your world with kindness… TTFN #peacelovekindness #lifeisgood #bettereveryday