Unshackled Moments ~ July 9 ~ The Lord The Day Has Made

This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Psalm 118:24

Many of us know this verse. It can serve as a great reminder that God is in control even when it doesn't feel like it and when things aren't going the way we want or expect. But how often in the truth of belief that shows in the fruit or results of our thoughts, attitudes and actions do we get it mixed up and reversed? Why is  it that all too often we live it as this is the Lord that the day has made.

We confess that God has made the day but the way we respond to our circumstances and situations of the day all too often defines how we see God. We declare God is good and faithful when we feel it, but when we feel confused, frustrated, depressed, etc. we wonder where He is.  God must not really love us if He allows us to hurt. If God made the day why does it suck? If I am supposed to rejoice and be glad why doesn't He make it  so that I feel like doing so?

These seem like logical questions at the time our spirits ask them, but what they reveal is less logic and more idolatry. When we let how we feel dictate our response to God and the truth of who He is, we are worshiping at the wrong altar. We are serving and submitting to the god of feeling. When we place how we feel above what God says about His nature and care for us, we declare our belief and faith in the heresy that our feelings are more accurate and real than the truth of God.

Today let us not serve the false god of our  emotions.  Let us dethrone those self centered thoughts that makes us see God through the filter of how we feel. Let us instead let the wonderful and awesome God we serve define how we feel and see the circumstances of our day, so that we can remember that feelings lie, that He is indeed Lord of Lords and Master and that despite what we may be feeling and going through we can and should rejoice and be glad. Why? Because He loves us and has given Himself for us. Because we are free to have relationship with Him. Because this suffering is but for a moment.