Rotten, Stinkin’, No Good Day

Weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. – Psalm 30:5

Have you ever had one of those days? One where everything that can go wrong does. They can be so frustrating and test our ability to live in the peace and joy God offers. Those type of days reveal where we place our dependence, either on ourselves or on Our God. Yesterday was one of those days.

It began with some incredible sales at work. In my excitement and hurried pace, I made a very costly mistake. Frantically I worked through every possible option to minimize the damage and eventually found one that would have to work, but I would still lose quite a bit of money on the sale.

The disappointment at my mistake lead to a lack of patience and then snowballed to frustration and discouragement with every other task. I felt overwhelmed and ready to run away screaming.

Then God gently reminded me that I had missed my time with Him, so in the 30 minutes that I had before needing to leave for a meeting I sat down and spent some time with Him. One by one as I read my Truth Scripts I could feel the weight of the day lifting and the discouragement being replaced with joy. My circumstances hadn’t changed, but my heart was changing. I was focusing on better things and was able to lead the meeting with a more Christ like attitude.

Spending time with God earlier in the day would not have prevented the mistake, but it would have given me a much better mindset to deal with the error and the other tasks that filled my day. Spending time with God gave me a chance to breathe and listen for His direction concerning the events of the day. His leading was to wait until morning and then finish the reservation.

The next morning I was about to pay for the reservation when He prompted me to check it one more time to see if anything had opened up overnight. To my surprise it had! The opening cut the loss I would incure more than half. Thank you Lord!

There is a saying we often see when we travel to Mexico that reads, “No Bad Days!” It’s means that there are no bad days when you’re on vacation, but I’m learning that to be true of other days as well. Regardless of what the day may bring, when we start our day with time with God it’s bound to be better.