Joy and Sin; Obedience and Disobedience
If joy is a result of obedience to God and walking in his ways, then we who seek to be joyful in all circumstances, no matter what sort of circumstances we find ourselves in, have to choose obedience.
Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that sin is a result of disobedience and the brokenness and negativity that we then feel. When we reframe sin or the brokenness that we sometimes find in ourselves/around us as a result of disobedience, rather than as a result of Satan's victory over us (because he can have none except what we cede to him), we regain the sense of autonomy in our lives. Not control over our circumstances, or that we should seek to manipulate God, but assurance that obedience will not leave us in an inner state of brokenness or lostness. When we find ourselves enslaved to sin, it is not sin that enslaves us, but we who chain ourselves to sin.
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Prayer walking: walking with eyes
open, not glued to our screens so that we
see, not the veneer of the
beautiful, but the realities of the
broken, the least, the
lost. Then,
pray,
lift our eyes to
heaven, our hearts open to
feel, that what breaks His heart
breaks ours, that the incense might rise before
Him, the Maker of heaven and earth.