The Power of a Bad Day

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I originally wasn't going to write this post because I'm having a bad day right now. I have been going back and forth for ten minutes because it would be so easy to just post an article I wrote a few months ago. But sometimes God calls us to do the hard things, and he's calling me to just that. Right now. I've been up for a few hours, and I have already started the day crying. A lot of things hit me at once, and out of weakness I immediately started crying and feeling sorry for myself. I hate crying. I hate the whole weak, pity-filled action of it. Crying is okay (most of the time), but I hate it all the same. However, when a bad day hits you have two choices. You can run away and feel miserable for yourself or you can take a few deep breaths and say, "Lord, here I am." We all have bad days. It's inevitable. But bad days have a power that good days don't. They have a power to show God in an amazing way. They have the power to show God's unwavering, true, uncontainable love. No matter what someone said or did we are called to show God. We are called to love others so radically they wonder why. It's not easy and believe me I do not want to do that right now. None of us want to admit when we were wrong. We all want to be apologized to, but we never want to be the ones apologizing. But there are so many promises in a bad day. So pray and let God take over. Because when we do that amazing things happen. A bad day is like fog. We know something is behind the fog, but we're worried we'll get lost in it and we give up. I've given up on many bad days before. I've told God no and I've ignored him and everyone else the entire day. But we forget that we won't get lost. God is holding on to us. Elizabeth Elliot once said, "Leave it all in the hands that were wounded for you." Leave all your burdens and sorrows at the cross, and find rest in God alone. There you will find the strength to get past the fog, and live the rest of your day fully for God. Because it's in darkness that light shines the brightest. A transformed bad day can cause a domino effect and change so many others, but when we let ourselves be consumed by self-pity nothing is gained. Each day has the same number of hours and opportunities. But we only see what we want to see. If we look for misery that's what we will see. If we look for others' faults that's the only thing we will see. So look to God and say, "Let me see through your eyes." I guarantee if you start striving to see everything through God's eyes your life will be radically changed. Choose to focus on God. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Be a light. Love others the way God loves you and watch it change the world.

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