Sometimes when you wake up, you think about what the day holds and you know that it is going to be one of those days before your eyes even open. The last few days have been full of extra things at work, financial difficulties, relationship ups and downs, you name it. You think to yourself, "I am just going to pull the covers up over my head and not face this one." No sick days left, you drag yourself out of the bed, and go on to work.
Just as you suspected, today goes the same way as the rest of the has gone. It wasn't just "one of those days," it was one for the record books. Then, the coup de grâce. Whatever the situation, it's just what you needed to top the day, the week, the month, or the year, for that matter (l don't know, like having a tree fall on your new house before you have moved a single thing into it. Sound like a personal experience? Yeah.) You think to yourself, "I knew I shouldn't have gotten out of bed today." But the thing is, bad things happen. They happen because other people make choices that crash into our life. They happen because we make choices that end up being bad ones. They happen because a storm blows in.
Here is where we must make a choice. We can allow our faith to be destroyed because of the things that happen in life, or we can take those opportunities to allow the Lord to strengthen it. The bad thing is there. It's not ever going to go away. It's done, it's over, it's in the record books. Nothing can erase the bad thing. Whether it's a thing that can be fixed or something that can never be corrected, what happens, happens.
James, the brother of Jesus gives us some wise words about the trials of life. He tells us to, "Count it all joy, my brother, when you meet problems of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness." James 1:2-3
We don't have to like the bad thing that happens, but we can count problems a joyous time to bring us closer to the Father.
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