Your Choice

We have many opportunities to make choices in the course of a day.  The alarm went off this morning and the choice to get up or stay in bed was before you! This choice laid the groundwork for the next choice, and on and on it goes.  I won't ask you to tell me how that whole process went for you this morning, but I will ask you to consider that no matter what you are dealing with today, from the sound of the wake up alarm to bedtime, you can choose an attitude of joy.

Let me prepare you...today stuff is going to happen.  Some stuff may be small aggravations that have the potential to get you irritated.  Some stuff may not be so small and may be life altering.   Either way, you get the opportunity in every situation, to choose how to respond.  I wonder, will you choose to let circumstance dictate your attitude or will your attitude be one of joy, in spite of the circumstances?

“So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).”

2 Corinthians 12:10 AMP

http://bible.com/8/2co.12.10.amp

Regardless of the circumstances surrounding you today...refuse to allow anything to steal your joy! That is your choice!

“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.”

James 1:2-6 NKJV

http://bible.com/114/jas.1.2-6.nkjv