Just One Day

 

 

 

 All I want is a day, just one day. One day, where I don’t end up with an incidental traffic ticket that ends up costing me two weeks worth of groceries. One day, when a friend doesn’t call me to tell me her house was broken into, or that her sister committed suicide, or that her sister’s husband was wrongly accused and lost his job. All I want is a day, when career pressures aren’t so high for my husband, and we’re all healthy, and nothing (or no one) breaks. All I want is one day, when no one we know is battling cancer, one day when no one dies, and no one is grieving. All I want is a day, when natural disasters take a little break in action, and when I can tune into the local news, or the global news for that matter, only to discover that there is no news, at least none of the disturbing kind that’s usually aired.
 

Such a day disappeared the day Adam and Eve were banned from the Garden of Eden. For now, life will continue to weigh me down, my only hope is that Jesus can lift me up. So I pray today, that He would do just that. That He would remind me He owns the cattle on a thousand hills, and that He is both Protector and Provider, Comforter and Deliverer. The troubling events of today will “come to pass”, His peace has come to stay. Life is tough, but His love is tougher, nothing can separate me from it. Because this world is broken I can’t have the kind of day I want. Because He came to make me whole, I can rest in His kindness even on the most unkind of days. Instead of living in the fear of what can go wrong, I can live in the joy of what Christ can make right.I can trust Him for today, this one day.

"My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.” Psalm 62:1-2 (ESV)