I was awakened again to see the dawn. I love it when that happens. At 6:49 this morning and I thought, great! TYL! If I hurry, I can see the dawn. Sparkle and I were outside in the nick of time, by 6:54. It was another beautiful dawn.
We came inside then and I put the coffee on, fresh ground 100% Columbian beans. Then I sat down to write this post. I was interrupted a hundred times or at least it seems like it. I wanted to write a little and then add a picture in this post to sort of remind me of this morning. But I couldn’t find anything in “MyPictures” that I wanted to use. So I went to a folder I haven’t looked at in my PC for a long time and found one called “webshots data.” Bunches of icons but I couldn’t open them to see what the pictures were.
Anyway, stay with me – I finally just picked one. The icons were all labeled “album ph10001.jpg, album ph10002.jpg, album ph10003.jpg”etc. There were 15 of them. When I picked a pic at “random,” the 8th one, ph10008.jpg, it opened and I have to say, I was surprised by joy, the deep kind.
Nothing happens by “chance.” Nothing. The good things and the bad are part of a Divine design although most people do not agree with me. Even the ugly things in this life that happen to us and others can not and would not happen without God’s permission-not His will, His permission. He allows it. I don’t know why.
Whether we believe in Christ or not, He will prove Himself to us during times of doubt and during times of belief. He does it over and over again, first in your hearts, and then, hopefully, in your spirit.
Doubt is human even if we know Christ personally. But if you do or you don’t know Him, if you want what I call TRUTH proof, you can have it.
“Surprised By Joy” is a book written by a former atheist who could not stay in denial of the one True God even though he tried. He could have stayed in denial until the day he died but he didn’t and couldn’t. You know why? Because he searched for the truth.
You cannot search for the truth without your heart being awakened, awakened by the dawning of the reality of God. But even then we can choose to live a lie, knowing the Truth. When C.S, Lewis wrote “Surprised With Joy” the joy came not when his heart understood. No. Surprising joy came when he chose to believe the Truth.
God not only awakened his soul, He was invited in to C.S Lewis’s spirit. Soul and spirit are two different things. When Lewis believed in his heart that Jesus was indeed God the Son, that’s when his spirit was made alive. His spirit passed from death into life. He was born again, not of the flesh (body and soul) but of the spirit. The Holy Spirit of Christ ”quickens” the dead spirit of man, when when we believe the Truth.
As a Christian, God will surprise us with deep, deep joy when we least expect it. In good times and in bad times. It happens over and over again like it did for me just this morning. When I saw the dawn, my soul and spirit were filled with joy. It was like, wow, Lord, this was almost as gorgeous as the other day when you woke me.
But then I came in to write about it here with a quick post and got frustrated. Silly me. As I kept trying to figure out how to open those icons and ”randomly” opened one – it was back! Pure joy - this icon, “Album ph10008.jpg” when open is right here, this is what I saw… Enjoy “Joy In The Morning”
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