Men,

I hope you all have had great weekends.  Colossians 3:2 says that in seeking Christ, His Righteousness, and His Kingdom, we should continually set our minds on the things above.  In my own life I have found that one of the most beneficial parts of a personal quiet time with the LORD in the mornings is that I can take away one piece of truth about God that I can chew on the rest of the day, and attempt to apply that in my own life.

To that end, I’m going to try to share a “Word for the Day” with all of you, with the hope that God would cause growth in all of us.  So this will serve two ends, you all will be my accountability that I am digging into the Word each day, and you all hopefully will be blessed by God’s Word, perhaps in a different way than in your own quiet times.  I’ll try to keep these short because we’re all busy, and I want this to be something we can carry with us throughout the day.  Hope God is richly blessing you where you are today.

Todays WFTD:

A Fullness of Joy –

Many of us have grown up with the idea that Christianity is more about what we “cannot” do vs. what we are free to do.  Likewise, if you polled most of the world, their perspective on happiness and joy would most likely be skewed towards some idea of a “perfect” family / house with a white picket fence, and a 200″ Home Theatre.  Solomon, a King of Israel, we see in the Book of Ecclesiastes owned more than we will ever own, had more opportunity for earthly pleasure than any of us could hope for in 100 lifetimes, and concluded that it was all pointless.  In the end, the point of life is to point to God (His worth).  Jesus has said that only in knowing Him is there true joy.  What areas of our life have we sought joy apart from God, and what do we need to turn over to Him in prayer?

Psalm 16:11 (ESV) –  “You make known to me the path of life;in your presence there is fullness of joy;at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”