As you go through life, you may be tempted to think that your best life is still a long way off. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your best life starts today. God wants you to enjoy your life right now. In a book by Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, the seventh step to enjoying your best life now is to choose to be happy today! You do not have to wait for everything to be perfectly straightened out in your family or with your business, or until you loose weight, break an unhealthy habit or accomplish all your goals to be happy. No, God wants you to be happy right where you are, right now!
Happiness is a choice you make. When you get up in the morning, you can choose to be happy and enjoy the day or you can choose to wake up and be unhappy, with a sour attitude. It is up to you. If you make a mistake of allowing your circumstances to dictate your happiness, then you risk missing out on God’s abundant life. It might be a time when you are going through rough times, or you may have major obstacles in your path, all of which can give you a reason to be unhappy or upset. But being unhappy or upset won’t get you anywhere; it won’t change anything for the better. Negativity or a sour attitude is not going to improve anything either. You might as well choose to be happy and enjoy your life! By being happy and enjoying life, not only will you feel better, but your faith will cause God to show up and work wonders in your life. God knows that we struggle, have difficulties and challenges. But it was never his intentions for us to live one day high and mighty and the next day down in the sewers, defeated and depressed because we have problems. He wants us to live consistently and enjoy every single day of our lives.
To do so, you must stop worrying about the future and what hasn’t happened yet. It is great to have a big-picture outlook, to set goals, establish budgets and make plans, but if you are always living in the future, how are you going to really enjoy the present the way God wants you to?
Focusing too much on the future often frustrates us because we don’t know what’s coming. Naturally, the uncertainty increases our stress level and creates a sense of insecurity. We need to understand, though, that God has given us the grace and knowledge to live today. He has not given us tomorrow’s grace. When we get to tomorrow, we’ll have the strength to make it through. God gives us what we need but if we are worried about tomorrow right now, we are bound to be frustrated and discouraged.
You must learn to live one day at a time, by an act of your will, choose to start enjoying your life right now. Life is too short not to enjoy every single day. Learn to enjoy you r family, your friends, your health, your work; enjoy everything in life. Happiness is a decision you make, not an emotion you feel. I am sure there are times in all of our lives when bad things happened, or things didn’t turn out as we had hoped but that’s when we must make a decision that we’re going to be happy in spite of our circumstances.
Many people live in constant turmoil, they are always upset, always frustrated, always having some kind of major challenge that’s keeping them from being happy. They can’t sleep at night; they’re too worried, they don’t like the people they work with, they are irritated with the smallest things or when they have to sit in traffic. They get aggravated when something doesn’t go their way, they get all bent out of shape and loose their cool.
It’s extremely important that we know how to live a life of peace. If we’re going to do that, we need to be able to flex and be willing to adjust. When things happen that would normally bother us, we have to put our foot down and say, “no, I’m not going to let that take my peace. I’m going to rule over my emotions. I’m not going to allow myself to get upset and aggravated, I am going to choose to be happy.â€
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