| Remember that real lasting joy is not dependant on your circumstances. Some of the world’s most miserable people are those whose circumstances seem the most pleasant and enviable. People who reach the top of the ladder career-wise are often surprised to find emptiness and, often, real loneliness awaiting them. True joy comes only from knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Solomon tried all that this world had to offer at the time. Here is his conclusion of the matter: “And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11). Only the One who made us can satisfy us. He is offering lasting joy today. Don’t refuse it for the fleeting “pleasures of sin for a season” (Hebrews 11:25). |
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