I don’t know how your Monday has started off, but mine is off to a grand start. I started my day with my wife informing me that our hot water heater tank is leaking from the top and that our basement is flooding. It is with this backdrop that I bring you today’s Monday morning encouragement.
Life is filled with crisis moments. At times like these it is easy to feel like the character “Pigpen” from the Peanuts cartoons. If you recall Pigpen always has his own personal cloud following him around. It is important for all of us to remember that difficult times are a part of life. In the end we come away with greater character and new found strength.
The Bible reminds us:
James 1:2-3 (NLT)
Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. [3] For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
Things like water heaters. car repair, and visits to the emergency room can cause great stress in our lives if we allow them to. I think it is important that we instead look beyond the crisis and realize that these things are also the opportunity to build faith, trust, patience and as the verse above said endurance. Life is a marathon and not a sprint. Endurance is something we all need.
For me on a day like today, I go back to the promise that has carried me through many difficult days:
Psalm 34:19 (NLT)
The righteous face many troubles, but the Lord rescues them from each and every one.
This is where trust comes in. I have to trust that God who hears my prayers is big enough to carry me through any crisis. As I reflect back over my life I have seen God carry me through the loss of a home, a miscarriage, business failure, financial downturns and adversity of many different shapes and sizes…today I am confident that he will see me through once again.
If you are facing a crisis in your own life today…just remember God will make a way…even when it doesn’t seem possible. Tomorrow will still come and one day this crisis too will pass.
Until next Monday may God’s richest blessings be upon you.
Monday, March 07, 2005
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