Some thoughts

On Sunday as I was listening to our guest speaker he posed some questions that got me thinking about how off base our thoughts are sometimes. The question was “What keeps people from living out the love of God?” Some of the answers were fear, selfishness, peer pressures, distractions or pride. This is something that affects us all and yet our reasons are so little in comparison to the benefits we gain from living out God’s love for us and others. God has promised us peace and joy that are beyond understanding. Doesn’t that alone outweigh the things that hold us back? What happens often is that we haven’t experienced the peace and joy of God in our lives so we don’t believe that it actually exists. Try this, pray and ask God for His peace and joy to be evident in your life.