Greetings:
A simple truth this morning is even on a bad day, we can praise God and be thankful.
We read in 2 Corinthians 5:7, “For we walk by faith, not by sight”.
How many of you know God has a way of taking the blinders off and getting our attention focused on the things that really matter. When things are going not so good is not the time to fret and beat ourselves up about our personal shortcomings and woes of the day.
It is time to look forward with hope that there won't be a repeat of such a day.
It is is a time to look at the big picture of things and not focus on this one speck in time when things were not so good. That day is done. It is time to forget it.
An old proverb states that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
We don't worry about the potholes, the cracks and the dips in the road.
As we read about the great people in the Bible who have preceded us, we learn that they too had times of discouragement and sorrow. We learn that they persevered in spite of hardship, in spite of adversity, sometimes even in spite of their own weaknesses. We learn that they had more than a few bad days, but they continued to press forward, one step after another.
When God is the center of our lives, we can maintain a balance. Those big black clouds that we think are hanging over our heads might still be there, but we can be confident that our loving Father is still carving out his plan for our lives.
Be blessed.
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