"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." 2 Corinthians 3:18. If the only time you decide to enjoy yourself is when everything is perfect, you are never going to have much fun. Don't make the mistake of waiting to enjoy yourself until you and everyone around you are all perfected and have arrived at the finish line. The Bible says that we are being changed into God's own image and are going from glory to glory, which means we are going through a lot of different stages. We need to learn how to enjoy the glory of our current stage while we are moving into the next one. Realise that you are not where you were and are going to enjoy each stage on the way to where you are heading. Don't wish any stage away and the enjoyment of it through a longing to move onto the next one. Some people spend their entire lives wishing every stage away and consequently lead a life with minimal enjoyment. They believe that the next stage will bring them joy so they ignore and don't fully participate in the current stage. Every phase we go through brings with it a certain amount of joy, but it also comes with its own little set of problems. We need to learn to be glad in spite of any circumstance.
"For you make me glad by your deeds, O Lord; I sing for joy at the work of your hands." Psalm 92:4. The doorway to true happiness is found in the presence of God. It's okay being happy if God is doing something that makes you glad, but you need to know to be glad because of Him. Don't be fooled into thinking that you are going to be glad when God does the next thing for you that you want Him to do. As soon as He does, there will be something else that you will want and you will think that you can't be glad until you get it. You will achieve nothing spending your life waiting until some other time to be happy. Enjoy happiness when it occurs and rejoice for all the things He has done to make you glad. If we are to live in the fullness of joy, we must find something to be glad about besides our circumstances.
"Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you are upright in heart! Psalm 32:11. Even if everyone of our circumstances suits us, we will eventually find a world full of people who don't suit us. We get rid of those who don't suit us, but others will come along who also don't suit us. The cycle is never ending. Even being around Christian people will not make us glad all the time. The only one who can make us glad all the time, every time is Jesus, and even He cannot do that for us unless we allow Him to.
"Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall like him, for we shall see him as he is. Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure." 1 John 3:2. In reality, it is the choices we make today that determine whether we will enjoy the moment or waste it by worrying. Sometimes we end up missing the moment of today because we are too concerned about tomorrow. But God wants us to learn how to live in the moment, "...Behold, now is the day of salvation" 2 Corinthians 6:2, "...Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts." Hebrews
4:7. We spend too much mental time in the past or future. When we don't really give ourselves to what we are doing in the moment we become prone to anxiety and often over simple, everyday situations.
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