Live Life Fully

And so I heartily recommended that you pursue joy, for the best a person can do under the sun is to enjoy life. Eat, drink, and be happy. If this is your attitude, joy will carry you through the toil every day that God gives you under the sun. 
Ecclesiastes 8:15 (VOICE) ​

This sentiment is so important but God made sure to repeat it multiple times. You can find this again at Ecclesiastes 2:24, 3:13, and more. I’ve been taught that when God repeats something in scripture or in our lives, pay attention! I wrote recently about excepting whatever the circumstances are because my joy comes from God not my circumstances. That doesn’t mean the circumstances aren’t stressful, it doesn’t mean there isn’t pain in the situation, it just means that my joy does not come from my job or my house or my vehicle or the people around me. My joy comes from God.

The scripture above says to pursue joy. In order to pursue joy I have to pursue God because God is my joy. How awesome is that! God is not hard to find, it is we lowly humans that make it hard to find Him. In reality He is always right there with us watching us and loving us. He aches for our attention, He is devoted to our safety, security and peace, and He just wants us to look to Him—at Him. Pursue Joy - pursue God. God has given us this life to live fully. We live fully in joy and love which come from God, even the love we feel in our marriages, from our children, our friends and our family, that is gifted to us by God. So to live life fully, to experience the joy and peace and love that was intended for us, we do it by pursuing God. It truly is simple in the concept. Not necessarily easy to live out, but simple enough to understand. Putting it into practice takes work. And because each of our journeys is unique with God, how we put this into practice will be unique to each of us. That doesn’t mean we can’t learn from one another. I learn from others all the time, I am grateful to God for each person in my life.

How can you pursue God? How can you pursue the joy God has for you? How can you live life fully? God is good, He gave us one step in the scripture above: eat, drink, and be happy. Live life fully, embrace everything around you, see God in your circumstances, in the people in your lives, in your dreams and desires, because He is there, He’s always pursuing you, so pursue Him too. ​