There are some days I don’t want to go through.
It gives me a headache thinking of them as they approach, and when they come the headache worsens. It might be an impending bill, a dreaded inspection or a cataclysmic confrontation that needs to take place which might get messy.
I am not a big fan of those days at all. They are draining, they stretch my capacity for endurance to its limits and then some.
The pressure is on, people who are under considerable pressure themselves cannot handle it, so transfer it in my direction. I may very well know what is what in terms of what I can do and what I cannot do, but it does not negate the reality of added pressure.
I know it from time pass when it came to exams or when a lot was riding on a major event in which I was involved in the planning and execution. So much is on it, that it really is disproportionate. Energy, resources, effort and skill invested in something that in reality is over in a matter of minutes. Not even many of those. The effects are not your call – it’s just the input that is yours.
The tension can genuinely be a mental, physical and spiritual assault course. I am not always quite prepared to take on all the obstacles in the course, trip over, stumble and fall. That’s why I’m not a big fan of these kind of days.
Yet, as I am learning more and more, God loves these days. He loves these days in me going through these things, because in success or failure, His love never changes, His approval of me is not swayed one way or the other. Indeed if anything what I learn all the more is that He remains faithful to take me through anything He brings me to, as well as make a way of escape through any mess I bring myself into. He does not do so without scars. He does it, however, with a blessed outcome of knowing Him more in the process, and understanding that hymn lyric that says Oh for grace to trust Him more.
In your necessary days, I encourage you to look to be consciously aware of God’s presence. A presence that with it brings peace and joy, even in the most heated and stressful of environments.
These are necessary days, so as to grow in you a better understanding of what it takes to endure – and what it takes is a clearer, brighter and greater appreciation of the grace He gives us to see Him in all life.
This is for you in those necessary days.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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