One of those days...
He told her, "You're talking like an empty-headed fool. We take the good days from God—why not also the bad days?" Not once through all this did Job sin. He said nothing against God. Job 2:10
Ever have one of those days…? Your in a hurry to run errands and every stop light is against you causing you to stop and fume… when you finally get going someone cuts you off…
The checkout lines at the store go on and on and on… or your busy clearing out and organizing the pantry and one of your dogs gets sick… on new carpet?
The car needs an oil change, the lawn is weedy and needs mowing and the garage is a mess again... The honey-do list is expanding like your waist-line while the treadmill gathers more dust…
Your boss is cranky again, who knows which direction they will decide on… and so-and-so is stabbing you in the back… The ‘in’ box is starting to overflow and the ‘outbox’ is filled with scrap paper--just to make yourself feel productive…
Time and to-do lists and stressors march on, even if we don’t. We get tired and mind-weary from all the stress, all the fuss, and all the rush…
On some days the suns out and its just simply beautiful outside. The grass is green, flowers are blooming… but inside you feel gloomy? Ever feel that way?
Ever ask where is God is this madness? The Bible says that he’s right there with you. The distaste of a bad day may not go away but God will walk with you and be with you through it all.
And when you blow it, when anger flares because you over did it or you are overly stressed or the real reason, your sinful nature comes to the surface… when that occurs and you really, really feel low… God’s only a prayer away, a few words of forgiveness and then you move on.
Because that’s about all you can do. You and I cannot change all of our circumstances. Those that we can tweak, we tweak but what to say of all the others? Ever thought that maybe there’s a reason? Maybe the astonishing life that we’ve always dreamed of, that the world portrays to us, that we need to buy into maybe, it just does not fit us.
The question is… can we be happy with being who we truly are? With God we can be. The bad days will come and go and will come again but deep inside we can know the peace and joy and comfort of a God who knows… who understands… and who walks with us through it all!
Ever have one of those days…? Your in a hurry to run errands and every stop light is against you causing you to stop and fume… when you finally get going someone cuts you off…
The checkout lines at the store go on and on and on… or your busy clearing out and organizing the pantry and one of your dogs gets sick… on new carpet?
The car needs an oil change, the lawn is weedy and needs mowing and the garage is a mess again... The honey-do list is expanding like your waist-line while the treadmill gathers more dust…
Your boss is cranky again, who knows which direction they will decide on… and so-and-so is stabbing you in the back… The ‘in’ box is starting to overflow and the ‘outbox’ is filled with scrap paper--just to make yourself feel productive…
Time and to-do lists and stressors march on, even if we don’t. We get tired and mind-weary from all the stress, all the fuss, and all the rush…
On some days the suns out and its just simply beautiful outside. The grass is green, flowers are blooming… but inside you feel gloomy? Ever feel that way?
Ever ask where is God is this madness? The Bible says that he’s right there with you. The distaste of a bad day may not go away but God will walk with you and be with you through it all.
And when you blow it, when anger flares because you over did it or you are overly stressed or the real reason, your sinful nature comes to the surface… when that occurs and you really, really feel low… God’s only a prayer away, a few words of forgiveness and then you move on.
Because that’s about all you can do. You and I cannot change all of our circumstances. Those that we can tweak, we tweak but what to say of all the others? Ever thought that maybe there’s a reason? Maybe the astonishing life that we’ve always dreamed of, that the world portrays to us, that we need to buy into maybe, it just does not fit us.
The question is… can we be happy with being who we truly are? With God we can be. The bad days will come and go and will come again but deep inside we can know the peace and joy and comfort of a God who knows… who understands… and who walks with us through it all!
posted by Michael Byrd at 4:21 PM
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