Did you ever have one of “those days?” Every now and then I have one of “those days” when everything that can go wrong goes wrong and nothing seems to turn out right. You say the wrong thing. You hear audibly what someone says but somehow before it got out of their mouth and into your ears the words got misarranged because that is not what they said. Anybody tracking with me? This isn’t simply I spilled a little coffee on me day, this is the lid fell off my Starbucks Grande Stainless mug and went into my console, my purse, between my legs and it was hot, kind of day. Now you feel better because your day wasn’t really that bad, right?
See we think we have it so bad until we see someone who is a lot worse off than we are. Our arm hurts and then we see someone with no arm. We have a fender bender then we read in the paper where a teen driver hit a family head-on and no one survived. My mother use to say, “Misery loves company.” As a believer we are to see things differently. We are to see the good in everyone and give thanks.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV) 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
The man at the pool of Bethesda had a victim mentality. “No one will put me in when the water stirs, everyone else gets in a head of me…” it’s another one of those days. Even after he was healed he blamed someone else for his healed condition, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed." He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, "Take up your bed and walk". (John 5)
It is up to us what we are going to do about the kind of day we are having. We can have a victim mentality or we can get up off our backside and chose to do something even if the only thing we can do is praise God.
A great book to read is, “The Applause of Heaven” by Max Lucado. Sometimes we need to just take up our bed and walk, even if it is just to the chair. Be encouraged. Do what you can do and God will do the rest.
"A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other." - C. S. Lewis
See we think we have it so bad until we see someone who is a lot worse off than we are. Our arm hurts and then we see someone with no arm. We have a fender bender then we read in the paper where a teen driver hit a family head-on and no one survived. My mother use to say, “Misery loves company.” As a believer we are to see things differently. We are to see the good in everyone and give thanks.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV) 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
The man at the pool of Bethesda had a victim mentality. “No one will put me in when the water stirs, everyone else gets in a head of me…” it’s another one of those days. Even after he was healed he blamed someone else for his healed condition, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed." He answered them, "He who made me well said to me, "Take up your bed and walk". (John 5)
It is up to us what we are going to do about the kind of day we are having. We can have a victim mentality or we can get up off our backside and chose to do something even if the only thing we can do is praise God.
A great book to read is, “The Applause of Heaven” by Max Lucado. Sometimes we need to just take up our bed and walk, even if it is just to the chair. Be encouraged. Do what you can do and God will do the rest.
"A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other." - C. S. Lewis
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