Welcome to Enjoying Every Day Life with New York Times Best Selling Author Joy Smire.

On today's program, Joyce will be teaching from her series, Blessed in the Mess.

Choosing to trust God despite our circumstances is the answer to everything.

This doesn't mean we sit back and do nothing while God fixes all our problems.

It means we can live with joy and be a blessing to someone else while he works things out in his way and in his perfect timing.

If we tend to God's business, he will take care of ours.

Now here's Joyce with today's teaching.

You know what? Even when Jesus shows up, we're still going to have stuff wrong with us.

He doesn't care that you never reach the place of perfection.

What he wants is a perfect heart who's always moving toward him, moving toward him, moving toward him.

And I tell people all the time, just get up every day and do the best you can and let God do the rest of what you can't do.

And when he returns, whatever is still wrong with you, he's going to be changed in the twinkling of an eye.

And you will be like him and see him as he is.

You know what? I don't worry about stuff that's wrong with me anymore.

It doesn't trouble me one bit.

And it makes the devil so mad he's about to have an nervous breakdown.

You know why I don't worry with it anymore because I about killed myself with worry over it for years and years.

And you know what God finally showed me? You're no surprise to me.

I knew what I was getting when I got you.

I mean to you honestly think that you got saved in the next day, God said,

I sure didn't know you were going to be like this.

God is not surprised by anything that happens in our life.

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