Hearing your alarm clock go off in the morning can easily be your least favorite part of the day. Often, you find yourself hitting snooze over and over until you know that you have to get up if you want to keep your job. Sometimes getting up is not too bad. After all, once you get over your morning grogginess, the day may turn out to be pretty good… or maybe not. Maybe the second that your alarm goes off, your day starts to go downhill right off the bat. It’s sort of like you never really had the chance to make the day a good one, but of course, only because you have to, you drag yourself out of bed anyways.
You get ready for work. Because you pressed snooze so often, you have to get ready much faster and end up running out the door, forgetting your coffee and your lunch on the table. All the while, you’re just hoping that you aren’t late for work.
Cutting it close, you make it to work. Maybe your morning is really slow and you’re just itching for your lunch break to come. Maybe your morning is so busy that you have no time to think of anything other than what is in front of you at that specific moment. Either way, by the time your lunch break comes, you couldn’t be more relieved.
On your lunch break, you decide to go to the nearest coffee shop and pick up your favorite coffee drink. You think that maybe having this hour to yourself and having time to enjoy your coffee drink to the fullest will make you feel a little bit better.
That’s when they hand you your drink.
And it’s all sticky.
So you think, Okay, that’s no big deal. I will just clean it off with a wet paper towel.
But when you go clean it off you accidently squeeze your drink too hard.
Your lid pops off and your favorite, day-making drink spills all over the table.
You wondered, Could this day get any worse??
After that, your day may have gotten better or it may have gotten worse.
My guess is that if this is how your day started, or if your day was remotely close to this, that it ended up getting worse after the coffee incident.
If we’re all honest with each other, we’ve all had one of those coffee-spilling days.
I’m here to either remind you or tell you for the first time that those coffee-spilling days don’t have to have as much power over your attitude as they do. Just because bad things happen, doesn’t mean that your day has to be bad. There’s a solution.
Jesus.
He’s your solution.
Don’t shut me down yet.
Maybe you feel like you don’t have a lot to be thankful for, but Jesus died for you. Be thankful for that. Because the truth is that you could have everything in the entire world to be thankful for, but without Jesus, those things don’t matter. They won’t satisfy you. They won’t make you truly happy.
Jesus can make you happy.
Jesus can be your Zen.
He can make your coffee-spilling days good days.
You might ask, “How can He be my happy? I can’t see Him; He can’t actually make me laugh. He can’t physically talk to me. I don’t get it. ”
You’re right, you can’t see Him. That’s where faith comes in (Matthew 18:3). You may not feel Him or see Him at work, but you might not be trying to either. Harsh, but maybe true. If you look, you will see.
Spend time with Him every day. Renew your mind to His word. Read about Him. Thank Him for what He has provided you with. Get to know Him. Fill your mind with Him because when you do, you won’t leave any room for the devil’s negativity. Talk to God and if you don’t believe in Him tell Him to prove himself to you because He will.
If you do know Jesus, thank Him regularly for the blessings He brings your way and begin to renew your mind daily in His word (Romans 12:2). Once you learn do to those things you’ll be able to look those coffee-spilling days in the face and confidently say with a smile on your face that Jesus is your happy.
If you don’t believe in Jesus, I encourage you to give Him a chance because I can promise that it if you do it, will be the best decision you've ever made.
And you can hold me to that.
Anyways, coffee-spilling days don’t have to have power over you.
Jesus has already overcome those days.
He already beat them, which means that with Him, we beat them too.
We won.
Praise God.
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble, but take heart I have overcome the world." -John 16:33
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