Well…not always. We had the most AMAZING rain yesterday! It lasted for HOURS! It wasn’t a crazy storm…just rain. I opened my windows early on in the day and listened to the rain falling in the background as I cleaned house. I’m not sure why, but there’s something so soothing and peaceful about the sound of falling rain. And don’t get me wrong, I do LOVE a good crazy storm every once in a while.
I’ve written a few blogs in the past about embracing the storms in your life, but I’ve never quite been able to put things in the exact words that I wanted. My friend, Meg, was able to do just that:
“Never blame a day in your life…good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience. Both are essential to life, all are God’s blessings.”
Huh?…
Bad days are essential to life? Bad days are God’s blessings? Well that just can’t be right!
But it is! One of the hardest things to accept after you’ve fully accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior is that bad things will still happen to you. You will still feel pain that you didn’t think was possible to feel. You will still go through times that you thought would be impossible to get through.
Think about when you exercise. You hurt so bad afterwards because you’ve torn up your muscles & ripped them to shreds. But once they heal, they’re even stronger than they were before. We’re the same way. We go through hard times. We fight, we hurt, we grieve, sometimes we even lose ourselves. But when things finally calm down we look back on what we just went through and somehow we come out on the other end even stronger.
The thing most people don’t understand is, God is not in the business of making a world full of rainbows and butterflies and happy songs and Fridays. He’s in the business of making each and every one of us more like Him. He wants us to be the best “us” we can be and the only way to do that is to let our guard down and fight through the obstacles life throws at us and allow God to use us. This lyric from one of my favorite songs is so eerily beautiful…
“When you start giving in, where do the promises all go?
Will your darkest hour write a blank check on your soul?”
Lyrics © Slaid Cleaves
Don’t give in as soon as life gets bad. Don’t start throwing blame where it’s not due. Bad days come. Tough times come. God told us they would. But He also told us that if we hold on to Him in those times, we’ll make it through to the other side.
“I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” ~ John 16:33
How cool to know that we have someone on our side who has overcome everything that we could ever face in our lifetime! How can you not find comfort in that?
Stop blaming your bad days and start thanking God for bringing them so that you can be even stronger than you ever thought you could be.
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