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://our.homewithgod.com/heavenlyinspirations/ This writing may be used in its entirety, with credits in tact, for non-profit ministering purposes.

Satan couldn't tempt us if there wasn't some small, secret, part in us that wanted temptation. The same advice we give our children works for us. Just say, "No."

When we come to place we no longer want temptation, we don't want that path, we know it will hurt us, and we wish temptation to forever go away ... then God says, "Your wish is my command," or words of like meaning.

Instead of asking God to help "us" with our temptation (works - II Ti. 1:9), we can ask Him to forever remove it. Committing it to God makes Him Divine Keeper (II Ti. 1:12, I Pe. 4:19). What God does is a done deal and that's a load off our backs!

He made a way to escape, I Co. 10:13. Now, that's Good News!

© by Joyce C. Lock http://our.homewithgod.com/heavenlyinspirations/ This writing may be used in its entirety, with credits in tact, for non-profit ministering purposes.