October 2, 2007

  • Better Days

    Welcome!  Blessings!

     

    I sort of got carried away talking about myself yesterday (smiles).  I had so much on my heart & I’m not too sure that I’ve gotten it all off of my chest but I dare not create another blog with pages and pages of babbling!!!

     

    I have a very special prayer request.  I dear friend, co-worker and sister-in-Christ named Livia Walker is in need of prayer.  About a month ago, she came to my desk with very sad & teary eyes because her grandmother has just passed away.  I thank God for the gift of prayer.  We went and away and prayed together and the God of all comfort blanketed her in His healing love.  Well, this weekend, there was a huge fire and it was her apartment building.  She’s lost just about everything.  I know God is a God of restoration and I pray right now that He’ll show me what I need to do to be a blessing to Livia and His instrument of love.  Thank you for your prayers for her during this difficult time in her life.

     

    In times of adversity, people will say, “I’ve seen better days!”  But have they really?  Would they know which ones are which, or which ones were good or best?

     

    Sometimes certain situations can weigh on us so heavily.  Even if it’s just a brief occurrence in the course of our waking hours, it can still impact and define our entire day.  We find ourselves longing for better days—Lord knows how I need this devotion on this very day!!!  Yet, we don’t see that those days are some of the best days ever; even the instances of seeming adversity are good and shall serve as the highlight of the day and its crowning success.  I know it doesn’t look like it, but just wait and see!!!

     

    When I read Ecclesiastes 7:4, it lets me know that “Sorrow” is my friend that refuses to allow me to make a fool out of myself!  We’re conditioned to think of “sorrow” as something bad.  Well, that gives a new and true meaning to the phrase “I need it bad!”  Lord, when times are bad, help me to remember that I never had it so good! Amen.  Shall I tell you to enjoy this?  Yes, by all means—Enjoy!!!  & Be richly blessed.

     

    The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.  Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.  Ecclesiastes 7:4 & Proverbs 14:13

     

    When we wish for better days, we fail to recognize

    That “better days” are somber days when tears fill in our eyes.

     

    Whenever we want better days, we don’t believe somehow

    That what we often want are days we’re having here and now.

     

    So, when we ask for better days, we all must be aware

    That sometimes sorrow is prolonged in answer to our prayer.

     

    Yet it is not to torment us but so our hearts are blessed;

    And we’ll reflect and see it’s when our days were at their best.

     

    Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?  For thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.  Ecclesiastes 7:10

     

    Be Seriously Encouraged!

     

    Pam