Your life plan is in Jesus
Faustino de Jesús Zamora VargasThe world says: know yourself, love yourself first so that you are able to love others, take control of your life and do not let anything or anyone rule your emotions and your will and all this will lead you to success. God says: know me first, put your trust in my love, give me your life and I will put control over it and that will bring you joy.
The joy of the Lord is not a pleasant temporary experience based on what you have obtained with your efforts and your effort, but rather an incomprehensible state of mind for the mind and the heart based on what the Lord has done in you. Joy is the visible result of the fruit of the Spirit in the life of a Christian, it is the immaterial but clear envelope of a life surrendered at the foot of the Cross. It is looking to the future with hope and with the certainty that gives us faith in the plans that the Lord has for his children. In a world where the purposes of the natural man are based on what his ego and his "self" can achieve, God continues to draw the curtains of his grace so that we can enter with love the stage of his glory.