Gloomy Monday?

 

It's Just One of Those Days

Isaiah 43:11-12

I alone am the Lord;
only I can rescue you.
¹² I promised to save you,
and I kept my promise.
You are my witnesses
that no other god did this.
I, the Lord, have spoken.

 

I picked up this verse off of Bible Gateway as the verse of the day today.  It’s like God was speaking directly to me and giving me the refreshment I needed for my soul.  Do you ever wake up in the morning with a sense of unworthiness hanging over you?  Or maybe there are just some days you feel like your dragging your feet in the mud and life just seems to have this tight grip around you, choking you, giving you, “I don’t want to be here” moments throughout your day?  That’s exactly how my days have been going lately.  I have allowed the never-ending thoughts of my worldly day surround my entire being.  Thoughts like: “I’ll never get moved up here.  Do I even want to try harder at work?”  “Today is going to be a long day.”  “Ugh, it’s Monday.  I hate Mondays.”  “I already have people giving me a hard time and it’s only Monday.”  “Why do I even bother, no one even cares anyways.”

Yes, pretty much every single one of those thoughts has gone through my head already this Monday morning.  It’s kind of depressing, I know.  But if I don’t start my day with a promise of God, it goes on like this the rest of the day.  I’m so glad that the Lord sent me this little reminder today.  He says, “I alone am the LORD, only I can rescue you.” WHEW!  God is the only thing that will save me.  Not my job.  Not my parents (although, I do run to them a lot to save me from my insanity).  My friends won’t save me.  My money won’t save me.  Buying more stuff won’t save me.  Finding true love won’t save me.  NOTHING can save me but my Lord.  Isn’t that refreshing?  We don’t have to rely on things that will fail us, because God is there to ALWAYS pick us back up!  That is so much encouragement for my soul. 

Promises, to me, have always been kind of cliché, when they are made by another human being.  But when I saw that God has kept His promise with me from the very beginning of my life, it changed my whole perspective on the word “promise”.  Promise means a “declaration or assurance that one will do a particular thing or that guarantees that a particular thing will happen”.  I’ve made plenty of promises that I didn’t keep.  “I promise, when we get home, we’ll play with your dollies.”  “I promise that I’ll never do that again, God, if you get me out of this one thing.”   But a promise coming from God is different.  You see, we promise things but we don’t know what is going to happen in the future.  Like when I promise Lydia that I will play dollies with her when we get home, I don’t know if we’ll actually make it home.  Or when I promise to God that I’m never going to do something again, I don’t know what the future holds, plus I’m human and I do stupid things.  BUT, God knows the future.  He knows when He promises us abundant life in Him that we will either accept Him or reject Him, but that doesn’t change His promise.  That makes His promise more meaningful then a human-being’s promise!  God is all knowing.  That means He knows EVERYTHING, people (if you didn’t catch that).  I think that sometimes we devalue Him, and start thinking that he is another human being that will let us down.  BUT HE WILL NEVER LET US DOWN!  He promises to give us rest when we are weary, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28).  He promises to lift us up when we are having a hard time, “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up” (James 4:10).  He promises to protect us from the evil one, “But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one” (2 Thessalonians 3:3).  He promises to hear us in every need we have, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us-- whatever we ask-- we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15).  God loves you and His promises have stayed the same and will always be the same.  Now, I don’t know about you, but that is something I needed to be reassured of on this gloomy, cold, Monday morning.

 

Have a blessed day in Him!