Good Monday morning! Urrgh! Four walking days this season and I'm feelin' it. Of course the prevailing advice is to start out slowly and yesterday I kind of overdid the walking. So, actually I'm only feeling one day of walking and that feeling is my own fault. I don't have enough coffee beans for a pot today and the toaster smoked the kitchen, so I had warm bread. You know, this reminds me of something.... oh yeah, it's a Monday! Praise God for Mondays! Without Mondays we wouldn't know how to enjoy the other six mornings of the week.
Speaking of Mondays, I wonder how many sunburned folks will be wandering the halls of their workplaces today? The days were hot and dry this weekend and I saw a lot of boats headed down the road. That usually means some "don't touch me's" will be found in your work area this morning; some of whom will have red or half red faces to show for it. I always liked the red raccoon faces where the big sunglasses kept the sun from burning around the eyes, but left the rest of the face sunburned. Oops, second food stain on the manuscript. Good thing it's just a copy for making corrections on. Must be a Monday!
Does it seem like God sets up your Monday to get you into the proper mood for appreciating Him more? Maybe it feels as though God has turned the Devil loose on you on Mondays, kind of like he did with Job back in the day but in a small way. You haven't lost your children and livestock, but the car keys simply will not be found, you're already running late for work, and the dog just committed a little faux pas on the living room floor. Your manic searching of the house for the car keys and the language employed to lubricate your search may have helped to upset the dog; you realize this too... and the Monday has only just begun.
No question, some days seem worse than others. Mondays seem to bear more than a fair share of the daily burden, but we can tell that not every day goes just the way we would wish. Do you imagine that God's will is being done each day on this earth? Jesus taught us to pray that God's will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven, but I think we can tell that God's will is not the things we see in the news each day. This does not require a giant intellectual leap for any of us. God wrote: Thou shalt not commit murder, and we can read about murders every day. The same goes for stealing, adultery, coveting, dishonoring parents, and taking God's name in vain... along with any other commandments that are violated on a daily basis. Yeah, God's will seems to be pretty far away from the world right now. Does that mean we can stop praying that line?
Oh no, quite the contrary. The world needs those who would pray to God, perhaps now more than at any other time in the world's history. We need to joyfully and gratefully take our posts as prayer soldiers for Christ. We can see the need and the need is for us to pray for those all around us and throughout the world. Take time to pray today, and perhaps your Monday will go better too!
Bucky
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