Most of the times, we allow what is happening around us to determine what happens within us; but true joy is not dependent on the outside but on the inside. Beautiful environment does not guarantee joyful heart; but it is the state of the heart and not the earth that does. Joy comes from within, and it is due to the state of the heart. The scripture says: "A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones" (Proverbs 17:22).
In life, there are challenges, confrontations, situations and predicaments that come to one's way, but you can choose your disposition concerning them. You may not be able to change the situation, but you can choose your disposition. "You may find yourself in a muddy environment and choose not to be moody". How? By taking charge of your heart. If you take charge of your heart, your heart can put you in charge of what happens to you, on the earth.
Limitation lives only in our minds, but we can renew our minds with the Word of God, to make our possibilities become limitless. It takes what is going on in your mind to control what is going on around you or to you. The Word of God has the capacity to empower our minds to dominate our world. The scripture says: "Thy Words were found and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart:......" (Jeremiah 15:16). The joy generated by the Word of God will always put one in command of every situation in life. It takes joy also, to draw waters from the wells of salvation (Isaiah 12:3). The Joy of the Lord, is your strength (Neh. 8:10).
Therefore, the prevailing situation notwithstanding, if the joy of the Lord is within you, you will always prevail. Even though you are in a tattered muddy house; covered with mud on your body, if your heart is renewed by the Word, you cannot be moody. Joy is not determined by the status of your environment, but by the state of your mind.
Solutionist Victor Akinwande
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