Contending For Your Joy

Joy is suppose to be our natural state. However the pressures of life, the environment around us, the situations and circumstances we find ourselves in all work to press out our joy. Stress, strain and anxiety all play a part in diminishing our joy. What we have to do is to fight to maintain what was suppose to be our natural state. No it is not about what is happening around us, but more what we have or better said, who we have in us and with us. It is trusting God enough to move the unauthorized things out of our lives that is crowding out our joy, and allowing our joy to have its rightful place. It will be a fight, but it is one worth fighting.