Psalm 40:16 "But may all who search for you be filled with joy and gladness in you. May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout, "The Lord is great!"

We have great reason to be filled with joy. Why do we allow the day to day events to damper that? I know I struggle with that where my joy trumps my daily difficulties. It's what satan does to distract me and focus me on the trivial and meaningless things in life.

God's joy is deeper and more full than our disappointments. But, we need to search it out as joy can be hidden under the disappointments and the mundane.

I'm not sure that it always demands a verbal shout, but we certainly should have a lifestyle that shouts that something is different about us. To have God in a relationship with us ought to make the mundane, the trivial, and the disappointments fade into the background.  In so doing, it should bring about a lifestyle that shouts that the Lord is great!

Prayer: Father, forgive me for not searching you the way that I should. Help me to live in such a way that my lifestyle communicates that you are great!