God gives us hard days, but He gives us good ones, too. During the bad days, we know well what we need to do to fight through it: in our testing, let us persevere, with grit, character, and resolve. When imperiled, we are forced to choose a path, and if we want to survive, that path is with a gutsy faith that God loves us, and He will get us to that next safe step on the climb upward.
But when we reach a wide, seemingly endless, and perfectly smooth plateau, it may cause a feeling not to persevere, per se, but confusion. When things become too good, something must be wrong, right? It’s on these days when regressive temptations are prone to slip in. A too good day might lead to a disaster.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Even in the good times, and on the good days, when God blesses us with health or security or connection, or all three at the same time and more, when we are blessed – let us anchor our day in Jesus. Let not the things Jesus give us be our cornerstone that secures us, but in Jesus Himself. No matter how much we are blessed, the greatest blessing He gives us is Him.
So let us pray, pray fervently, in close relationship to Jesus our Lord, when we are tested on the bad days, and evermore, all through the good ones, too.
A Brave New Heaven 