Stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new home, until your home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you get approved for disability, until you are off welfare, until first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you have had a drink, until you have sobered up, until you die, until you get to heaven to decide to be happy.

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

© by Joyce C. Lock

http://my.homewithgod.com/blessingsandlessons/

This writing may be used in its entirety, with credits in tact, for non-profit ministering purposes.

God gave His terms for doing what is otherwise impossible ...

"If my people, which are called by my name,

shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,

and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

2 Ch. 7:14

Changing world begins by, first, changing ourselves. Only then do we have God's promise that He will heal our land, other's land, and world. The lost are no to blame. To continue to ignore that, to not face truth of condition of world, to not hold ourselves personally accountable for our part ... times will only get worse.

God can not continue to bless America when we do not follow His leading. Scripture does not even grant us right to claim name 'Christian' except we are, first, His disciple (Acts 11:26). God does not ask us to be perfect or even good enough. In fact, His requirements are really very simple.

"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good;

and what doth Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy,

and to walk humbly with thy God?"

Micah 6:8

Whatever flag you are waving, make sure God is given first place. You have been given power to change your world. It is up to you what you do with it.

© by Joyce C. Lock

http://my.homewithgod.com/blessingsandlessons/

This writing may be used in its entirety, with credits in tact, for non-profit ministering purposes.