Oh how the lyrics of this song fit how I felt Spiritually for a few days drowning in my own thoughts....
Well as I began to write this, on the side in the little pop up bar shows a water drop with a big smile. I wish I could copy and paste it but I couldn't. The caption said... When water attacks find a plumber. It was a Roto-Rooter add. Well my daughter and I found a Sub Pump that did a great job. In the mess of all that was happening with the "Flood" in my back yard, Jesus stepped in my drowning thoughts and my joy was back.
When water is stagnant, you don't have to invite the mosquitoes, they're just going to come. The same with our Christian walk. Stay stagnant in your relationship with Jesus, you don't have to invite the enemy, he'll just creep in.
Due to all the rain we have been getting day after day, and the way the guy behind me built up his structure, and the horrible drainage, well really none, my back yard was a swimming pool! No exaggeration! My mind was giving into negative thoughts, and not so nice ones about the guy behind me either. Even thoughts to the point that I was wondering if I should just sell my home and go into a condo. This was as I was just having a new floor put in, and just put up a new privacy fence. Talk about stupid thoughts. Every time the dark clouds would roll in, I would panic. Psalm 30:5, but joy comes in the morning! Even if the storm clouds continued to roll in.
Happiness is based on circumstances you are in. Joy is no matter what you are in, it doesn't leave you. That's because it's within you. Hebrews 12: 2 says, "For the joy set before Him He endured the cross".... Joy before being crucified. Can you wrap your mind around that?
Now since Jesus walked that path before me, He shows me how in every circumstance. He lifts me up when I'm falling, when I'm weak and feel like I am dying. He keeps me from staying under and drowning in my own negative thoughts. You need the water stirred up, and the Sprit of God will do that if you continue to seek Him, cry out to Him. He's got BIG, BIG shoulders, and He's without a doubt, a GOOD, GOOD, Father.
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