Have a Good Day

“Have a good Day” the cashier at Kroger said as I folded my receipt and started pushing my cart of groceries out to the car. “Yeah, you too” I replied, thinking grocery shopping isn’t the best way to start a day. “Have a Good Day” has become a cliché, just a trite way of saying goodbye. It has no sincere meaning any more. Anyway, it seems I’m having fewer “good” days lately. I wonder why?

Maybe it’s because I pay more attention to the price of groceries and the hassle of shopping than the blessing of having food in the house; lots of folks don’t you know. How did that song go that we learned as children? Count your many blessings….. name them one by one?

Maybe it’s because I spend my days brooding about yesterday or fretting about tomorrow. How can I possibly have a good day if I’m brooding about yesterday and/or fretting about tomorrow? .Paul said, “forget those things which are behind, and reach forth unto those things which are before”. (Phil. 3:13) Jesus said, “Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is he evil thereof”. Matt 6:34

Invariably when I’m sad or get down in the dumps, it’s because my behavior and/or attitude has deviated from God’s Word. That’s when I allow Satan to steal my joy. Preacher Davis has a sermon from Philippians which identifies the “Joy Stealers” as “Circumstances, People, Things, and Worry”; and shows the solutions as “Single Minded, Submissive Minded, Spiritual Minded, and Secure Minded”. That’s a gross over-simplification of a sermon I need to hear about once a month; but my point is that my solution to the blues is to do what God’s Word said in the first place.