Intro to Right Attitudes- With Joy & Thankfulness (TMF:467)

Tuesday, August 09, 2016
Peace to Live By: Intro to Right Attitudes- With Joy & Thankfulness (TMF:467) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s say we want to go an outdoor outing along a rigorous trail, and if we are going to go on this outing, we might as well do it right—go to the best place possible we can. Let’s say we are out in the State of Utah for our journey. I love that state; it’s such a beautiful place. When we decide to go on this adventure, hopefully we are trail enthusiasts, or we shouldn’t be going. Nonetheless, we choose to go on the adventure and have an underlying joy as we wait and look forward for the time to come. Then it does come, we fly out there, and we go out on the trail. Now, as we go, we know that there are going to be times where the trail is difficult, and times where it is easy. We may even run into a problem or two on our journey. We retain our joy because, if we are into trails, we love the outdoors. And when we come to the end of the journey, we look back at the outing with thankfulness (assuming all went well). We may have taken pictures, and from time to time we will look back on these pictures with thankfulness. I say all of this because I want you to understand that, as Christians, we can have underlying joy that is present regardless of our circumstances in life. And we can also can have thankfulness in our varying circumstances. Today, I want to talk about having both joyful and thankful attitudes, as Christians, as we live out our lives. God wants us to have an intrinsic joy in our lives, as we trust in him with our lives. And, of course, he also wants us to be thankful for all that we have.