Have you ever had a day that was a total waste of makeup? It’s a day when almost everything possible goes wrong. You touch something and it goes from gold to aluminum foil. Your new big idea turns into the flop of the month. You are scared to check your email cause you know, after all, bad news comes in threes (or thirties).
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Does this sound familiar? Of course it does.
Some people call them bad days, but I prefer what Anne Shirley called them—Jonah days.
Hopefully, you aren’t as bad off as Jonah, who wailed to God that “…it is better for me to die than to live.” (Jonah 4:8). But I’m sure you can appreciate the sentiment behind his drama. (Who says men don’t do drama?)
Recently, as I was in the middle of a Jonah day, I was begging God to clear the fog from around my brain’s spark plugs and give me the grace to get through the day. As I was chuckling over the poor prophet Jonah, God reminded me of another prophet who had plenty of excuses for wailing.
His name was Jeremiah. Now this man had problems.
His country was invaded. His people were captured. He was thrown in a well.
But instead of literally wallowing in the murky mire of his problems, he chose to look up, and look at his Savior.
So often days seem like Jonah days when we glance at our Savior and gaze at our stacks of problems. We’re suffering from a chronic case of near-sightedness, able only to see with finite eyes.
The next time you’re tempted to echo Jonah, change prophets and sing Jeremiah’s song instead:
“This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:21-23
You may be stuck in the well for a little while, but take your eyes off the mud and look at the rays of SONshine coming from the top.
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