Choose to have joy...

The joy of the Lord is our strength!

What exactly does that mean?  Joy means to experience great pleasure or delight; to rejoice.  Strength means power to resist attack; from one high point to the next; the quality or state of being strong.  Rejoice means to praise; put your hands together; to celebrate; to express joy.

You may be having a bad day, week, month or even year.  But I encourage you to choose to have joy.  Let us choose to put our hands together and praise the Lord, who inhabits our praises and keeps us strong from day to day.  

Deal with today; yesterday is past.  Tomorrow is not here yet and things can change for the better almost instantaneously.  Therefore, let's choose to rejoice and allow the strength of the Lord to bring you from one high point to the next.