Christ Props Us Up

When someone depends on others to "prop" them up in order to feel emotionally secure and full of joy, then perhaps it's their trust in others instead of Christ that motivates them. Being accepted by people can be the greatest trap and bondage someone places on themselves.

When we are completely secure in Christ, we need no one else to validate or praise us. Obeying Christ really is it's own spiritual reward.

I believe this is why deeply godly people who trust Christ need no adventures in their life. Everything in normal life is adventure enough, because their joy and excitement in Christ is far better than a worldly or temporary high from fabricated events has to offer. Every deed we have to do, every person we meet and every challenge, is an adventure to be solved and we turn to Christ for the answers.

Psalm 37:4-6
"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday."

When we delight ourselves in the Lord, His desires will become ours. We are no longer looking for something better or more to keep the emotional high going. I have met many people like this, they seem to have no sense of happiness unless they are engaged in an unusual adventure, it often has to be something no one else they know is doing.

We enjoy new experiences like anyone, but when we walk with Christ our joy is not dependent on those experiences. Even when nothing big or unusual is going on we remain joyful, through difficulties, that joy does not leave us.

We may cry over the loss of a loved one or pain we are experiencing, but that joy is there in the middle of it all, because it is no based on our experiences but Christ Who lives in us, helping us through everything as well as walking through our happy experiences with us.

The Christian life is one of great joy, no matter what our situation and hope never leaves us.

Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

Psalm 28:7
"The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him."

Romans 15:13
"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope."