On Saturday I was hit with the “bug” – you know the one where you are doing fine one minute and the next minute you don’t know what hit you – chills, fever – stomach cramps, etc (enough graphics). Up all night – pain – wondering if it will ever go away – and then as quickly as it came – it goes! You can eat again – you can move again – you can begin to feel like a person again!
I was thinking how wonderful it would be if we put a 24-hour limit on the things that bug us! You know the worries, the fears, the doubts, the nagging voices inside of you that cause you to be unsettled and sometimes even afraid. What if we made a determination that took into consideration that in fact there are going to be times when things “hit us” and when it seems as if try as we might, pray as we might they still cause an itch that won’t go away. But what if we also decided that these bugs only had permission to last 24 hours – maybe less than that, but certainly no more! What would happen if half past the twelfth hour we put our foot on the devil’s head and declared that he had to go – to take his accusing voices (he is the accuser of the brethren), the resounding threats (he goes about as a roaring lion {he is not a lion – he just acts like one}, and what if every time he tried to raise his manipulative head to speak out, we spoke back with the word of God? If we did those things we would certainly put an end to the “bugs” that get under our skin and cause us to be stretched and stressed out – which was never God’s plan in the first place.
We need to then go into Phase II – health maintenance – for though there be a cure, there must be a plan to prevent future bug attacks – what if we proclaimed each new day, a day that the Lord hath made and we will rejoice and be glad in it! What if we prayed as Jesus taught us how to pray,
“Give us this day, our daily bread” – believing each new day for His bountiful provision; never doubting,that He will come through.
And finally what if we began each day with a praise on our lips, a song in our heart, an expectation in our spirit that as Oral Roberts used to say when I was first a Christian many years ago, “Something good is going to happen to you, thss very day, this very hour, Something Good is going to happen to you, Jesus of Nazareth is passing your way.”
Have a wonderfully blessed day!
God Bless You,
Maria
Great word. Glad you are feeling better. The word of the song goes “The enemy is defeated, nothing is going to hold you down”.