Ever have one of those days when you wake up, thinking, "Today's just gonna suck"? Your eyes are bloodshot and your contacts are superglued to your eyeballs. By the time you finally get them out you look like you have pink eye. You have purple mountains majesty under each eye. Your hair makes you look like the Bride of Frankenstein... At this point you're ready to become the next Cruella de Ville, or Yzma with hair. But clothes always make the mood, so when you look outside and see it's overcast thus making it cold out, you can wear your fave hoodie and jeans which makes you happy, right? No, dead wrong. Today is supposed to be 92 degrees, but you don't know this until you're sweating bullets and hear it on the radio on your way to work. Stupid bipolar Nevadan weather...
You get to work and everybody is happy and cheerful, greeting you with a "Happy Monday" and you're thinking, "That's the mother of all oxymorons." They ask how you're doing, you politely reply, "Good, but I'm tired." Their response? "Yeah, you look it." *Epic. Fail. Facepalm.* You didn't have time to grab any coffee, and have no change for the soda machine. Now you're praying for Jesus to turn your boring, "the taste of purity" lying-lie-face-liar-water into carbonated, caffeinated agua just to wake up. It doesn't happen. Today is just not your day... But it is still a day that the Lord has made. Therefore you should REJOICE and be GLAD in it.
Today has no reason to truly be horrible, or even a "bad" day. It could be so much worse! I heard about the typhoons in the Philippines while at church yesterday so I decided to look it up. Approximately 59 people have died, 28 are missing and 15,000 had to evacuate in a week's time. That's a bad day. But even though all this is going on, the Christians there are still rejoicing and believing in Christ for a miracle of his protection. Some of them lost everything they had, yet they still are glad to be alive.
Please understand, I am feeling just as guilty as you are, if you're in the same boat I am in. However, rather than feeling bad for the Filipinos, I am encouraged. Rather than beating myself up over it thinking, "Man I am so stupid! How could I be so pathetic?" I am thinking, "Dude, I need to pray for my brothers and sisters! I need to thank God that the rainstorms that Vegas will be getting this week will not do anywhere near as much damage as they did in the Philippines, and all over SE Asia." Rather than turning on Pandora and allowing the secular music which keeps me in the never ending circle of "life sucks and I hate today", I need to listen to worship music and praise God for his unfailing love and goodness. It's not about me, it's never been about me, it's all about God. It's always been and always will be about nothing but Him.
And for this reasoning, and this reason alone, even though I may struggle, even though I may be hurting and confused, even though I do not want to face what the day has for me, I should praise my God for his everlasting love. I need to trust in him and look for what he has in store for me today. Who knows? Maybe I will miss out on an unexpected blessing, or miss a opportunity to be a blessing because I let my selfish lil' ol' pathetic me and my hate for today get in the way. This is why from this day forth I want to fight for my joy bombs!
What are joy bombs? Joy bombs are when Jesus releases supernatural joy in a person's life either momentarily or permanently. I first got them after I was released from a major stronghold in my life. I saw Jesus opening the gates of heaven and he and the angels were throwing these bright bombs down to earth, and wherever they hit the people were captured with true joy and couldn't contain themselves. Much like bombs, they have an everlasting impact-and if they're nuclear they spread to more than just one or a few people.
My prayer for you today, dear brothers and sisters, is that no matter what kind of day you're having I pray that you would receive the Father's joy bombs. And that no matter what happens, no matter where you are, that each and every day you would fight for your joy bombs. (:
You get to work and everybody is happy and cheerful, greeting you with a "Happy Monday" and you're thinking, "That's the mother of all oxymorons." They ask how you're doing, you politely reply, "Good, but I'm tired." Their response? "Yeah, you look it." *Epic. Fail. Facepalm.* You didn't have time to grab any coffee, and have no change for the soda machine. Now you're praying for Jesus to turn your boring, "the taste of purity" lying-lie-face-liar-water into carbonated, caffeinated agua just to wake up. It doesn't happen. Today is just not your day... But it is still a day that the Lord has made. Therefore you should REJOICE and be GLAD in it.
Today has no reason to truly be horrible, or even a "bad" day. It could be so much worse! I heard about the typhoons in the Philippines while at church yesterday so I decided to look it up. Approximately 59 people have died, 28 are missing and 15,000 had to evacuate in a week's time. That's a bad day. But even though all this is going on, the Christians there are still rejoicing and believing in Christ for a miracle of his protection. Some of them lost everything they had, yet they still are glad to be alive.
Please understand, I am feeling just as guilty as you are, if you're in the same boat I am in. However, rather than feeling bad for the Filipinos, I am encouraged. Rather than beating myself up over it thinking, "Man I am so stupid! How could I be so pathetic?" I am thinking, "Dude, I need to pray for my brothers and sisters! I need to thank God that the rainstorms that Vegas will be getting this week will not do anywhere near as much damage as they did in the Philippines, and all over SE Asia." Rather than turning on Pandora and allowing the secular music which keeps me in the never ending circle of "life sucks and I hate today", I need to listen to worship music and praise God for his unfailing love and goodness. It's not about me, it's never been about me, it's all about God. It's always been and always will be about nothing but Him.
And for this reasoning, and this reason alone, even though I may struggle, even though I may be hurting and confused, even though I do not want to face what the day has for me, I should praise my God for his everlasting love. I need to trust in him and look for what he has in store for me today. Who knows? Maybe I will miss out on an unexpected blessing, or miss a opportunity to be a blessing because I let my selfish lil' ol' pathetic me and my hate for today get in the way. This is why from this day forth I want to fight for my joy bombs!
What are joy bombs? Joy bombs are when Jesus releases supernatural joy in a person's life either momentarily or permanently. I first got them after I was released from a major stronghold in my life. I saw Jesus opening the gates of heaven and he and the angels were throwing these bright bombs down to earth, and wherever they hit the people were captured with true joy and couldn't contain themselves. Much like bombs, they have an everlasting impact-and if they're nuclear they spread to more than just one or a few people.
My prayer for you today, dear brothers and sisters, is that no matter what kind of day you're having I pray that you would receive the Father's joy bombs. And that no matter what happens, no matter where you are, that each and every day you would fight for your joy bombs. (:
Joy Bombs!
Saint
Please keep the Philippines, and all of SE Asia, in your prayers as you think about the typhoon victims:
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