Radiation of Joy

It's a beautiful summer night here in Kauai. I sit here by the beach just taking in all the beauty and glory God created on this earth. The beach and water is so incredibly breath taking. So if God can  create beaches that stretch beyond our minds' capacity, and mountains that reach the sky,  what is stopping us from running full force towards Him? Negativity. When the day doesn't go as we planned, we get sour moods and become frustrated with life. We don't sit back and enjoy the beauitful, infinite blessings The Lord has given us. In fact, we ignore them. Breathing, moving, feeling, ect... We take all of those simple life necessities for granted. One day they could be gone. One day we will be gone. What's left of us? The bones lying under ground? Or the legacy and positivity we left behind? I'd like to think that it's going to be the second choice for about 99% of every human on this earth. The other 1% of humans must have really not enjoyed their time here and chose not to be upbeat and full of life. However, it's never easy to pick joy over depression. Some days it just happens that anger and guilt and sadness and annoyance overcome you. Yet, we get to control what angers us and makes us sad and what annoys us. I know that I'm always put in a bad mood when I see girls my age going to parties and getting drunk and then they wake up the next day and tweet a bible verse or post a picture on Instagram of how much they love Jesus. That annoys me. Hypocrites annoy me. But, I have learned that it is not and never will be my place to judge them. It is completely out of my control. It's all in the Lord's hands. Recently, I've found myself being judgmental of these hypocrites and then I remind myself I too am I a hypocrite in my own way. So my goal is to strive to be a better human being and to choose positivity. By allowing myself the freedom of positivity, it's a 100% guarantee by  Jesus, Himself that my day will instantly be better. Each day that I choose to radiate joy, my character changes in slowly and it's all done by the work of God. All I have to do is pray and ask God to change my heart. Donald Miller wrote in "Blue Like Jazz," "God woos us with kindness, He changes our character with the passion of His love." Boy do I ever hope that I can love others as much as Jesus loves me. Because each day that I choose love and freedom and joy, is a day that I can share God's glory with others and run full speed after Him. At the end of the day, we get to choose if we want to have a life full of joy or a life full of depression. We et to choose our own destiny; if we want to love Jesus and run after Him, or if we want to close the door on Him. Yet, I believe that if we close the door on Him, He's always going to be knocking and He's always going to be pursuing you even if you don't want it. If that's the life you chose, that in my opinion is a life full of  darkness and negativity. Who knows, maybe it's not. But  if you choose the life of joy, and the life with Jesus centered in it, there is a wellspring of life and you never grow tired or weary. So enough of this half-assed relationship with Christ. You're either all in or all out. You decide. Either way, there is an abundant supply of love in this world for you.