Here I am, at 5:15PM, just now getting to my devotions for the day! I would be making our dinner, but Terry is out right now so I am using this time to read my Bible, pray and post! What can I say? It’s just been one of those days! It’s Monday! No wait a minute. I can’t blame Monday. It’s just me.
For some reason, it is so easy for me to look around at my circumstances, than look up to the Lord. I know better, but I still do it. I read some great verses just now, that the Lord used to really encourage me. Proverbs 24:10 says “If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.” and my personal favorite, Prov.24:16a “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again…” I really like that last verse because that is me in a nutshell. I am “just” because I’m justified- I know I’m saved! I am a “man” because I’m hu-MAN. And I fall seven times a day, at least. I am always making mistakes. I lose my patience with someone, I think critical thoughts, I say those thoughts, I wish I could run away and never return, and the list is endless! I snap at my hubby or my kiddies. I fail to get up on time and end up having my devotions at 5 PM instead of AM!!!!
Yeah, I’ll be honest. I have this great “plan” in mind for my tomorrow as I pillow my head at night, and somewhere in there, my plan becomes a nightmare! Nothing goes right!! Mostly it’s my flesh causing the problem. It told me that it doesn’t like getting up, or reading the Bible, or praying! It wants to sleep and write email and eat Oreos. It likes me to please it all the time!! See what I’m facing every day? However, the verse says that a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again. So I want you all to know that I failed today. I didn’t have the kind of day that I had planned to have! I didn’t have the right kind of day because of me. I want you to know I don’t want to have “small strength”, I want to be strong. So with God’s help, and forgivness, I will now get up…again.