...and Good Days
In my previous post, I only mentioned about bad days, and not mentioning good days. Well…so here is the second half: what about days where everything seems to go so smoothly?
Again, there are two parts to this: the explainable and unexplainable. Like the post on bad days, the explainable parts can be explained as a consequence of your actions. For example:
“Woohoo! I aced this exam! Today is a good day!” (He/She probably did a lot of preparation)
“I had an enjoyable day hanging out with my friends today. What a great day.” (You chose to join your friends and made sure you enjoy every moment of it)
“Oh? I realized today I had more money in the back than expected!” (“Well…you did not keep close tabs on your cash so you misremembered)
There are probably infinitely many scenarios but you get the jist: something good happens as a result of your actions.
One can attribute those situations to ‘luck’ and ‘chance’ but I still think God is very much in control of the good stuff as he is on the bad stuff. Not that God is the source of bad stuff but he allows it for reasons mentioned in the bad days post.
But I digress. I recall a verse in the bible that says that God causes the rain to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous. (Matthew 5:43-48) Yeah. The passage talks about loving your enemies but it is applicable here. It shows that God gives general blessings to everyone, believer or unbeliever. So, to us it may seem by chance that good stuff happens to us but with God, it is not by chance.
Why does God allow good things to happen? Possibly because he is the source of all goodness.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)
And he does it also because hopefully, men might turn to Him.
“Yet he has not left himself without testimony: He has shown kindness by giving you rain from heaven and crops in their seasons; he provides you with plenty of food and fills your hearts with joy." (Acts 14:17)
According to the verse, it says he did it as a testimony to men. Testimony to what? Probably as a testimony to His goodness and providence, and maybe, men will seek after God. Notice that no matter what men can do, they can’t control the weather or the seasons. All is under God’s control.
So, when something good happens during your day, praise the Lord for allowing something good to happen.
As always, feel free to comment and share ideas. =)
posted by child_of_God at 6:31 PM
3 Comments:
i just think that maybe you maybe separating the good and the bad too quickly. I think days are just days as events are just events - neutral. How we describe those days defer under a lot of situations. and you may defer in your own opinion even for a same event after sometime.
I think we just have to take each day as it come - days ordained by God for us to grow in Him.
Of course i am taking a view void of emotions. I do agree we will feel some days are good and some days are bad. And no one can say that our emotions are wrong.
Yet as we shape our hearts and minds towards that of Christ, hopefully our emotions too will be shaped by Him as well.
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yeah. i agree. what is 'good' and 'bad' is up to the person's interpretation. even when God does something 'bad' but it is actually for our own good, we would think it is 'bad' for us but actually it is 'good' for us.
but i have experienced days when everything seems to be going 'smoothly' for no explainable reason. same for 'bad' days. thats why i begin to wonder....
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