Trusting God Day by Day by Joyce Meyer EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Joyce Meyer
- Publish Date: November 13, 2012
- Language: English
- Genre: Meditations, Devotionals, Meditation
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 4 MB
- Pages: 448
- Price: Free
- ISBN: 0446538582
January 1
Do Your Best with What You Have
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, your neighbor’s
wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or
his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.
EXODUS 20:17
How do you feel about your life? Do you like it, love it, and
enjoy it, or do you hate it and wish you had a different one
than you have? Do you look at other people and their lives and
wish you were them and had their lives? Do you want to look
the way they look, own what they own, have their career or
their family? Or are you happy with the life God has given
you?
In the Bible, wanting what others have is called coveting,
and it is forbidden by God. He even included it in the Ten
Commandments. You are never going to have anyone else’s
life, so wanting it is a waste of time. You won’t look like them,
either, so learn to do the best you can with what you have to
work with.
I have adopted a new phrase lately, and it is helping me to
deal with reality and not waste my time being upset about
things I cannot do anything about. I have been saying, “It is
what it is!” Somehow, that is a reality check for me, and I
quickly realize I need to deal with things the way they are, not
the way I wish they were.
Nobody has a perfect life, and it is entirely possible that if
you want someone else’s life, they are busy wanting someone
else’s, too; perhaps they even want your life. Unknown people
want to be movie stars, and movie stars want privacy. The
regular employee wants to be the boss, and the boss wishes he
did not have so much responsibility.
A single woman wants to
be married, and sometimes a married woman wishes she were
single. Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a
decision we must make. Contentment does not mean that we
never want to see change or improvement, but it does mean we
can be happy where we are and will do the best we can with
what we have. It also means we will maintain an attitude that
allows us to enjoy the gift of life.
Trust in Him If God wants you to have what someone else
has, you can trust Him to bring it to you, but first you must
be happy with what you have and do the best you can with
it.
January 2
Talk About the Good Stuff
But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give
account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they
speak.
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