This will be my last "For You Gals" post until we meet again in January. A quick reminder gals - We were created for God's pleasure, not our own. (Now if we could just remember that, 100% of the time, right?!) True happiness and abundant life comes from setting our minds, our eyes, our hopes, and our desires on Christ...and keeping them there! Our thought-life truly is a spiritual discipline for from our thoughts flow our actions and attitudes. When we fall into the mindset that life is about our needs, we have fallen back into worldly thinking. The Holy Spirit makes us new people on the inside by the Word. He transforms us into thinkers for God's pleasure when we choose to saturate our minds with the Word. He transforms us into doers for God's pleasure when we choose to act on His Word.
When we let bitterness and resentment simmer in our thoughts because of the hurts of others against us, are we happy? We are miserable, aren't we? If we choose to bless a hurt against us with kindness, we are living for God's pleasure...and we can have joy in the midst of difficult circumstances.
The Lord has created us so that we experience the highest pleasure and the greatest joy when we live for His pleasure, even under the severest of circumstances, what an amazing, wonderful Lord!
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. We've so much to be thankful for, don't we?!
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