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HAVING A BAD DAY AND
LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT !
by Charles Pedley
Have you read these verses?
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PS 139:13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
PS 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
PS 139:14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
PS 139:15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
PS 139:16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How was your day? - Bad? Have you ever had one of those really bad days?
You have a fight with your wife. Your kids are late for school and you have to drive them. Then you are late for work because you had to drive your kids. The boss yells at you because you are late for work. I mean BAD!
Have you ever had a BAD DAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
Oh you don’t believe in the whole Bible???
God says,
“All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Was this day ordained or not? Is God a liar?
Help me Lord to see each obstacle, each problem as ORDAINED. Not as an obstacle in the way of what I WANT, but AS ORDAINED.
What does ORDAINED mean?
ordain >verb 1 make (someone) a priest or minister. 2 order officially. 3 (of God or fate) decide in advance.
-ORIGIN Latin ordinare, from ordo 'order'.
It means “ordered officially”. It means “decided in advance”.
Who decided your days “in advance”?
Was it Satan? Was it mom or dad? Was it your pastor? Was it your wife or husband? Was it the kids?
WHO DECIDED? There is only ONE who COULD decide ..... GOD.
You were afraid I was going to say that, weren’t you?
So when you say you are having a bad day are you agreeing with God or disagreeing? You were afraid I would ask that?
So if you are disagreeing with God when you have a bad day, what does that make you? A very spiritual person? A person smarter than God?
An unbeliever?
How long have you been an unbeliever?
Just since you have been having a bad day, you say?
BUT GOD SAYS, IT WAS ORDAINED! ARE YOU DISAGREEING WITH GOD? ARE YOU DISPUTING WHAT HE SAYS?
SO ,IF IT IS ORDAINED, WHY WOULD GOD GIVE YOU A “BAD DAY”?
Why do we get rain? So we can get soaked when we get out of the car? Or so that the crops may flourish and grow? Why did your parents let you fall when you started to learn to walk? Why? Why? Why? - Were your parents being cruel to allow you to get hurt? Or were they doing the ONLY THING that they could do to HELP YOU LEARN SOMETHING?
If you don’t experience trying to walk and falling, how will you ever learn to walk? If your parents had punished you every time you stood up to walk and never let you try, when would you have learned to walk?
God MUST allow us, because he has given us freedom of choice, to WALK AND TO FALL SOMETIMES, to get up and keep going. Otherwise we would NEVER LEARN TO WALK IN HIM!
So can a bad day really be a bad day? I choose to agree with God! It WAS ORDAINED! For some reason we may never know until we meet Him face to face, HE ORDAINED IT!
So how is your attitude? How is my attitude? Are you still having bad days? Or are you having ORDAINED days? If you have ORDAINED days, you are choosing to agree with God.
If you have ORDAINED days, you can ask God and he will listen now, “What am I supposed to learn from this God? Please help me to learn this QUICKLY so that I DON’T HAVE TO KEEP HAVING THIS KIND OF ORDAINED DAY!!!
“All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.”
God has a library somewhere that he has written. In one of the books, on one of the pages is written what would happen today. And God created ..... and he saw that it was GOOD!
In one of those paragraphs, your name is written down. “Charles Pedley can learn something today. I may have to let him fall, so he can learn to WALK IN ME, but I am not cruel, I am not mean. I love him. I am planning to sacrifice my son for HIS LIFE. An even trade! Not because he deserves it, but because I LOVE HIM! I LOVE ALL OF YOU!”
What God has ordained let no man put asunder! What God has ordained, let us agree with Him about. “What can I learn, God? I trust you with my life. I trust you with THIS DAY!”
For PS 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
I have good days and I have ORDAINED days! In fact they are ALL ordained! God help me to believe ALL OF HIS WORD TO ME. God help me to learn what YOU HAVE ORDAINED FOR ME TO LEARN!
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