How to Let Go and Enjoy Life

How often do we substitute doing for being? How often do we keep ourselves from enjoying, celebrating life and all God has for us because we're afraid? How often do we feel guilt when we let down our guard, enjoy ourselves, or somehow feel we must "earn" our own and God's grace?

In the audiobook Eat the Cookie Buy the Shoes, ISBN 978-1-60788-185-8, HachetteAudio, Joyce Meyer shows each of us how to celebrate life and gives us permission to enjoy life's journey. When we go through life with a frown, with complaints and without joy, Satan wins. God is a God of joy and celebration. (Take a look at all the festivals He instituted for the the Jewish people--festivals of worship, praise, food and fellowship.) He wants us to celebrate life, the life He gave us.

Joyce Meyer shows us how God desires times of relaxation and refreshment. Even Jesus took time to relax and refresh. If He needed to relax, how much more do we need to be refreshed in order to celebrate life?

We don't need to live in guilt. What we need to do is to give Jesus our all, let Him set the tone of joy and celebration in our lives. As Joyce Meyer points out in Eat the Cookie Buy the Shoes, when we celebrate life, we are strengthened, built up, and find new hope for tomorrow.

Conviction? Joyce Meyer in her latest book Eat the Cookie Buy the Shoes has a whole different spin on conviction. Instead of letting conviction drown us in guilt, we should rejoice, that's right, rejoice. Why? Because conviction means we are still close enough to Jesus to feel the conviction that leads to growth in our walk of faith. It is one more reason to celebrate life.

As Meyer points out, we need to do our best, then rest and let God to His part. After all, attitude plays a big part in how we approach life. Why not cultivate an attitude of gratitude and celebration of who we are in Christ? Celebrate life and all of God's blessings. Celebration instead of worry and guilt is our choice. Will we choose to trust God and rejoice?

Sure, we need discipline in our lives. Sure we need to watch what we eat and to exercise appropriately. But not to the point we lose perspective of the joys of life. It is OK, at times, to Eat the Cookie Buy the Shoes.

Eat the Cookie Buy the Shoes by Joyce Meyer gives us permission to celebrate life.