November 28th

Read: Job 24:19 and Job 37:1-13; Psalm 118:24; Philippians 4:13

Sometimes we allow our experiences to project negativity upon days given us by our God. We often anticipate the worst and become “awfulizers”, as my sister calls it. At other times we “wish our lives away” because we do not want to face something, desiring the circumstances to be behind us rather than ahead of us. It may be a confrontation, a difficult trip, an illness, a difficult assignment or something as ordinary as winter.

We forget that each day, each moment of our lives is a precious gift from God, a learning experience in the school of life, an opportunity for service or for rest, and that it should bring glory to God.

NOVEMBER’S DOOR
Each year as I gaze out November’s door
Upon the falling snow,
As I consider all the winter days before
Spring’s balmy breezes blow,
Before a hot sun burrows deep into my bones
And I am warm again,
As I hear Wildwind’s sighing moans,
I wish it could be then.

And yet I know that every day I live
Between this omen’d day
And that warm one which surely God will give
Has purpose, though ’tis gray.
And so I gather all His strength in me
To meet the frigid blast
That I might joy in every day I see
‘Til April’s come at last.

Prayer: Dear Lord, thank You for the strength to meet each day’s task. Help me to trust You on dreary days as well as the sunny ones.