What makes you hold back from enjoying life? Maybe others around you are suffering. Maybe you yourself are weighed down. Perhaps you don't feel like you have the time to have fun or maybe you're concerned that God might not really want you to enjoy this world. a friend of mine shared a lesson about not enjoying what she had. Her grandmother had given her a giant chocolate bar at christmas. My friend wanted to stretch out the joy as long as possible, so she hid the chocolate bar in her chest of drawers and forgot about it until the summer months when she went to find it, she found it had been devoured by ants. In holding herself back from eating the chocolate she missed it altogether. The writer of Ecclesiastes nudges us to enjoy the life that god has given us. he writes `` go eat your food with gladness, `` and drink. your wine, with a joyful heart ``, For God, has already approved what you do .'' it doesn't honor God to avoid blessings that are given in life. instead, when we embrace God's good gifts, we actually bring him joy.
God likes it when we live life with gladness and enjoy what he's blessed us with. What good gifts from God are in your life today that he's inviting you to enjoy?
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