Ever have one of THOSE days? You know, the kind where everything goes haywire? From the moment you arise until things fall apart so much you can't sleep? Yeah. Me, too. Yesterday was that sort of day. Things were bad early, were bad in the middle, were terrible as I tossed and turned and tossed some more for good measure.
Today? I'm so sleepy I can't see. And a dear friend called this morning to say another dear friend's mother passed away.
Ugh.
But here's some things you can do. When things go so badly the tally starts to build up, think of what Jesus went through for you, for me, for us.
Isaiah describes some of the activity. He wrote, "Surely he took up our pain
and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God,
stricken by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
he was led like a lamb to the slaughter,
and as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
8 By oppression[a] and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was punished.[b]
9 He was assigned a grave with the wicked,
and with the rich in his death,
though he had done no violence,
nor was any deceit in his mouth."
He was beaten. For us. He was led like a lamb to slaughter. For us. He was cut off. For us.
Makes a bad day of little circumstances have some perspective, huh?
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