176: God’s good gifts usher us into fullness of joy in His presence (Psalm 16:11) || The Morning Mindset Daily Christian Devotional
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 23 June 2018
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📜 TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: Psalm 16:11
11 You make known to me the path of life;
in your presence there is fullness of joy;
at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. A few days ago I asked you the question, what is the source of your joy? |
| 0:10.0 | In the last few days I've been pointing out that we cannot let the source of our joy become |
| 0:16.8 | the things in our lives or the circumstances or the relationships or the people. |
| 0:22.2 | Those can sometimes be a temporary. or the relationships or the people. |
| 0:22.9 | Those can sometimes be a temporary source of joy, |
| 0:26.8 | but they are not the source of joy. |
| 0:28.5 | They are not the primary place. |
| 0:31.0 | We as Christ followers are to get our joy. And joy is a great thing. God wants us to have joy. See, |
| 0:40.5 | joy is different from happiness. |
| 0:49.3 | Happiness is very temporary, is fleeting, it is often based on circumstances and things and people. |
| 0:55.0 | But joy, joy is deeper. Joy comes from inside. Joy comes from God himself. And today I want to dig in a little bit to this issue of enjoying God's blessings. |
| 1:02.0 | You see the word enjoy is rooted in the word joy. They're part of the |
| 1:06.7 | same concept. Enjoy is our experience of joy. |
| 1:13.7 | It's what happens in us. |
| 1:15.0 | It's the awareness we have of the joy that we are experiencing. |
| 1:21.1 | And so when we enjoy a thing like a sunrise or a baby smile or laugh or the |
| 1:29.7 | embrace of a loved one when we enjoy those things. We are in a sense participating in joy |
| 1:37.6 | that God is passing on to us through the means of that thing. It's not wrong to enjoy things that God has given you. It's not |
| 1:47.0 | wrong to enjoy relationships that are in your life. It's not wrong to enjoy the blessings of things you see in the world |
| 1:57.9 | and experiences that you're able to have. There's nothing wrong with those things |
| 2:01.6 | unless they are things that God has prohibited for some reason, |
| 2:04.8 | like sexual relations outside of marriage, that kind of thing. |
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