Is Jesus your Joy? This is a question I have had to ask myself lately, over and over. If you don't know me, I am almost always busy, and have lots going on. This is not always a good thing. This grade twelve year has been no different, lots of new things, lots of school, work, bible studies, and meetings. I have been so distracted with all these things, and for a while this year I kinda lost my joy.
Lately, I have been worried about what God's plan is for me, and where he has me. I would stress about things that don't deserve stressing over. I haven't been the same joyful Tumble everyone always says I am, and I couldn't seem to pour into other people the way I wanted to. I couldn't figure out why I was feeling all these things. I was not purposely trying to find satisfaction in other worldly things, but I was trying to be satisfied with less than what I could have through Jesus.
I recently watched a video that said, "God is most glorified in me, when I am most satisfied in Him." And it hit me. When my satisfaction is put in temporary things, my emotions are scattered. It talked about the path of happiness and the path of God's glory, and how it can be the exact same path. If I am spending time with God, and filling my soul, then He will be glorified through me. If God is being glorified through my actions wherever He has me, then I am in His will too. I realized it's all from the same source... I have not been putting in much effort to become closer with Jesus, and it has been affecting me in all these ways.
I recently watched a video that said, "God is most glorified in me, when I am most satisfied in Him." And it hit me. When my satisfaction is put in temporary things, my emotions are scattered. It talked about the path of happiness and the path of God's glory, and how it can be the exact same path. If I am spending time with God, and filling my soul, then He will be glorified through me. If God is being glorified through my actions wherever He has me, then I am in His will too. I realized it's all from the same source... I have not been putting in much effort to become closer with Jesus, and it has been affecting me in all these ways.
God is most glorified in me, when I am most satisfied in Him.
But even through this time that I haven't been filling my soul through spending time with Jesus, he has been showing me these things and has continued to pursue me. It blows me away that even when we as humans tuck him in the back of our minds, he never gives up on us.
My challenge for myself, and for you reading this, is to become fully satisfied in Jesus, so that he can use us to our fullest potential, glorifying him, and pouring into others around us. I know it's hard to find time in our crazy lives, and we find so many excuses, but let's spend as much time working on the inner part of us, as we do on the outside. Let's examine ourselves, and let God change us from the inside.
I am continuing in this learning process, but I hope something in this can be of some encouragement to you as well!
Love, Tumble:)
My challenge for myself, and for you reading this, is to become fully satisfied in Jesus, so that he can use us to our fullest potential, glorifying him, and pouring into others around us. I know it's hard to find time in our crazy lives, and we find so many excuses, but let's spend as much time working on the inner part of us, as we do on the outside. Let's examine ourselves, and let God change us from the inside.
I am continuing in this learning process, but I hope something in this can be of some encouragement to you as well!
Love, Tumble:)
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