Picked Up in the Morning! - February 4, 2010

Good Thursday morning! Have you ever felt completely overthrown during one evening? The next morning a few words from the Bible bring you past that to a new dawn of invincibility in the Lord. A knowledge that we are more than conquerors in Christ envelopes our downtrodden minds and the new dawn is something to get up for; an event to see and a new life to live! Is it simply a night of sleep that does it? How could that be when we have experienced many nights of no respite from the circumstances of this world? The problems haven't disappeared in the morning light, but we seem to know that those problems are conquerable and surmountable in the strength of our Lord Jesus. We know that if we have stumbled in our walk with Christ, He is ever quick to forgive us, to pick us up and set us on the way once more.

The Holy Spirit in us brings a certainty that one day these problems will be gone and we will stand together in Christ and with Christ. I don't mean that our problems will keep us down throughout this life. We often think that only when we see Christ will our personal mountain of problems be taken away. However, Christ gives us the power to conquer in this life! We get up in the morning and the Holy Spirit reminds us that God's strength is more than sufficient. Start again with a renewed mind; put the defeat of yesterday in the past where it belongs and rise up to new heights in Christ!

We have heard the old saw about music having charms to soothe the savage beast or breast, depending upon the version. Did you know that music can help soothe high blood pressure? Of course, it must be the right kind of music. That fight song from your alma mater probably won't soothe. You might try some praise and worship music. My savage breast likes Caedmon's Call, Newsboys, Casting Crowns, Point of Grace, and others. The savage beast, on the other hand, sleeps to most anything as long as I don't turn it up too loud for him.

Pick up your cross this morning. Turn on a little praise music, and walk confidently in the Lord!

Bucky