Christ is my all, my confidence, and my strength.  But most days I struggle to remember this foundational fact.  Not that I am at any length a terrible person, just a selfish one.  It is easy to write what Christ means to me, much harder though, to act out.  I feel as though my spiritual journey has led me through doubt, pain, suffering, confusion, joy, sorrow, defeat and success.  It is in journey that I have found life.

 The difference in me or specifically in my life is the joy in which I choose to live.  James 1:2 speaks of finding this joy in all circumstances, for happiness is temporal; it can be stolen by dire circumstances and petty happenings.  But joy cannot.  Joy is found “in His place.”  As 1 Chronicles 16:27 says, “Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in His place.”  In my spiritual journey I choose each day to find joy in Christ, and then throughout the trials of the day, fight to remember where my confidence, strength and hope is found.