Good Monday morning! How does everyone feel today? Not quite at the top of your game on this Monday morning? I am not surprised. We enjoy the weekends and then have trouble getting motivated for work on a Monday. Most of us would have a perpetual weekend if we could. Those of you enjoying retirement will just have to remember what it was like to be in the working world each week. I don't know about you, but in reading Pastor Rogers' devotional this morning, I find a sense of dismay. What is the abundant life? How can I encourage others when I can only think, "bleah, time to start another work week"? The solution is much the same as with regrets. We overcome our attitudes or feelings of the moment, and enjoy Christ's abundance by striving to see what God sees. You and I may writhe on the altar of regret over past sins and mistakes in our lives, but what will God see when we approach Him? He will see the life of Jesus. Eh? How can the omniscient God see Jesus' life in us? Well, it's like this: We believe in Jesus to save us and He gave His life to do just that. We know that God puts our sins away from Him as far as the east is from the west. We know from the Bible that we will be given spotless robes washed in the blood of the Lamb at the judgment time. We also know that a robe covers us completely. Put all of that together and give the Holy Spirit time to work in our lives and, voila! God sees Jesus in each of us. No parade of past sins and social gaffes, no gloomy attitudes about Mondays and work will show in us, just the overwhelming joy of believing in Christ Jesus! Abundant life eternal is given to us now. As the plants across the northern hemisphere bloom with the approach of summer, enjoy the bounty that God has sent to your life. Remember what He sees in you; not what you see in your past, but the perfect, sinless life of Jesus.
God bless you on this fine Monday!
Bucky
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