Testimony Meeting Wed. 10/9

Wed 10.9.13Have you ever had that feeling as you’re moving through your day of just going through the motions?  A feeling of disengagement, the clock just ticking away, counting down the hours until you’ll move on to your next task, or better yet, go home, turn on the TV, and tune out.  It can be easy to let this kind of a funk wash over you.  It’s not something we actively notice.  We brush it off, blame it on a lack of sleep, too much to do, or just feeling bogged down in mundane or boring tasks.

The one highly effective cure for this is: “Enjoy.”

Brilliantly used as a Coca-Cola advertising slogan at the turn of the century, enjoy is a word that can be taken for granted.  It casually rolls off the tongue bidding someone farewell or wishing them a good day.  Recently I looked up the word enjoy, and the definition (from Merriam-Webster) is pretty obvious and simple:

  • to take pleasure in (something)
  • to have or experience (something good or helpful)

It is to be in a state of joy.  However, from the definition we can see that this state is not completely passive.  We take joy, we experience it.  Enjoy is a call to action.  When we actively pursue joy, not only in what we’re doing but in what we’re thinking as well, this will naturally have an effect on our experience.  When we are looking for this joy, it can never be met with want or lack.  The Bible explains, “in thy presence [God,] is fullness of joy;” (Psalm 16:11).

Wherever God is, joy is there also.  Genesis 21:22 says “God is with thee in all that thou doest” (Genesis 21:22), so we can know that joy too, is available to us in whatever we are doing.

This Wednesday, October 9th at 7:30pm, come hear passages from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook which illustrate the inexhaustible supply of joy.  Please join us, and don’t forget to enjoy!

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