The day after is the toughest. The day after you deliver the baby. The day after the car wreck. The day after the drunken brawl. The day after crossing the finish line. The day after Christmas. This is the day the pain sets in. This is the day reality begins. These are the days of contemplation. Did I do my best? Did I give my all? Was it the best that I could do?
Soon it will be a new year. Many times I have heard that the way you leave a season is the way you will enter the next season. The way you end a job or a relationship or whatever is, is what you take with you into the new. Our only hope is to become new ourselves. I do not mean we reinvent ourselves I mean we renew our mind. “For as he thinketh in his heart so is he…” Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) This is why we are told in the word of God that we are to renew our mind.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV) “2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
When you are willing to pay the price for the day after you will be more prepared to win the battle. The day after you see the look on the face of your child. The day after you cut through the finish line to qualify for the Olympics. The day after you told God you were sorry. The day after all your sins were forgiven.
My friend once told me, “Just because you rehearse it doesn’t mean it’s true.” Rehearse your battle only to give you strength for the next battle. You can face the day after if you do what is right today. Rehearse the good. Think of the pure.
I hate confrontation as much as the next person but we must confront others about sin or we lose them all together. We must confront others about injustice for those that have no voice. If we speak the word in love then the word will divide the thoughts and intents of our heart.
Hebrews 4:12 (KJV) “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Soon it will be a new year. Many times I have heard that the way you leave a season is the way you will enter the next season. The way you end a job or a relationship or whatever is, is what you take with you into the new. Our only hope is to become new ourselves. I do not mean we reinvent ourselves I mean we renew our mind. “For as he thinketh in his heart so is he…” Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) This is why we are told in the word of God that we are to renew our mind.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV) “2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
When you are willing to pay the price for the day after you will be more prepared to win the battle. The day after you see the look on the face of your child. The day after you cut through the finish line to qualify for the Olympics. The day after you told God you were sorry. The day after all your sins were forgiven.
My friend once told me, “Just because you rehearse it doesn’t mean it’s true.” Rehearse your battle only to give you strength for the next battle. You can face the day after if you do what is right today. Rehearse the good. Think of the pure.
I hate confrontation as much as the next person but we must confront others about sin or we lose them all together. We must confront others about injustice for those that have no voice. If we speak the word in love then the word will divide the thoughts and intents of our heart.
Hebrews 4:12 (KJV) “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
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