Lockdown Day 291 - 11 January 2021
Today is Day 291. Week 42.
Waking up this 42nd Monday after 80mm of rain was good, making today's joy exercise easy. The cool and cloudy morning stirred up that James-1-power in my being. I instantly wondered if I would've felt the same had there been no rain and the temperature hot and humid. 🤔
With the unavoidable news of Mr Prez addressing the nation again in less than two weeks, I go about my morning tasks as usual, thanking God for the smile on my face I could not explain. I encountered post-torrential rain traffic in Pretoria while trying to get to my early appointment, and it didn't phase me in the least. In fact, the smile of my spirit grew even wider.
I started praising God for every u-turn I had to make to find a 'dry' road. I was fashionably late but completely forgiven, with my appointment waiting with a fabulous fresh flat white. As I took that first sip (aaahhh) and felt completely content and not hot and bothered, it hit me that the "nothing missing and nothing lacking" part of that scripture was also true in that moment. And suddenly it didn't matter what Mr Prez is about to say or do.
You see, when you speak Scripture, it takes effect and causes joy to bubble up from your inmost parts even though there is no apparent reason. The world teaches us joy needs to the result of something. But the joy of Jesus is actually that something. Joy is a catalyst, a live and active emotion that works like the yeast in pizza dough. Having that dough under my fingers after it had doubled in size, made me realize without the yeast (catalyst) I wouldn't have succeeded.
So it is with inexplicable joy. You wake up and choose it actively by speaking the Scripture into your spirit. And then you watch how it grows throughout your day. And how seemingly difficult tasks suddenly become a joyous thing to do.
#Ggt
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