The Feeling of Pure Joy

For the past few months my life has looked great. I was leading a Bible study with my husband, I was going to church, I was working at a non profit, I was telling people about Jesus. I was saying the right things. But while I was doing all of that, I was not being filled with Christ's Word and His love because I was not accepting it. I wasn't searching for it. I was content with my life and I wasn't choosing to spend real time with Him. I didn't read my Bible and I really wasn't truly praying. I felt empty. I don't even know if I felt empty. I just didn't feel anything. I wasn't sad. I wasn't struggling with anything. I wasn't unhappy. I just wasn't feeling. Because I wasn't feeling, I wasn't thinking about it. So, I guess I didn't even realize that I was missing anything. When I say feeling, it is a feeling I have just in the last two weeks realized I was missing for a while. It is the overwhelming feeling of God's grace and mercy. His love that He abundantly lavishes upon us every single day. And while we don't deserve a speck of that grace, love, or mercy, He gladly gives it. I guess all I'm saying is now that I have been reading His Word and talking to Him on a regular basis, now that I have been seeking Him out for just the last week, I feel this joy that I now realize I was missing for a few months. Our God is so good and it is so easy to forget that when we get caught up in every day stuff. I forgot for a while what it was like to feel that pure joy of knowing God's love and feeling is abundant mercy. If you haven't felt it in a while, I urge you to seek it out. It won't be hard to find. He is waiting there with open arms. He just wants you to come to Him. He'll be there.