Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Friday morning.  I woke up feeling drugged, like I had gone 20 rounds with Ali during the night. Tired, achy, grumpy...wasn't a good way to start the day.  Then came the clumsiness....I kept dropping things, stumbling over my own feet, spilling....Ugh, this was not an auspicious start to my day.  And my attitude didn't really get any better....let's just say grumpy is putting it mildly.  I think if challenged I would have gladly bit someone's head off as evidenced by my feelings toward a driver behind me that had the audacity to beep at me for not turning fast enough.

Well, now I know enough to know that the Lord does NOT want me acting like this.  He does NOT want me following my feelings here.  But not feeling good physically, concern over some financial decisions I need to make, and just plain waking up on the wrong side of the bed do not for a happy Madeline willing to just shrug it all off make.  LOL

But God......

He saw my state.  He knew I wanted to try to correct my mindset...I did want and was trying to remember to be thankful and not dawdle on the emotionally low plane I found myself in.  So as He does so often He sent songs to lift me up.

First I stumbled upon a radio station on AM playing old hymns (I believe this station was at one time, radio Disney!).  This was totally by "accident" that I found this station.  And that beautiful old song "Great is Thy Faithfulness" flowed from my speakers.

Listening to this, remembering God's character, it really was like a soothing ointment to my soul. Peace started seeping into my heart.  Oh my Father, You are so good.

I changed stations and Steven Curtis Chapman's Glorious Unfolding was God's next gift to me.  This is such an uplifting song....so encouraging.  It ain't over til it's over...and God has the final say and the perfect plan!   No matter how I feel in the moment, no matter the circumstances, whatever the day may bring...He is in control and is making something beautiful out of what seems to be a mess.  

And finally, He gave me a song I am just in love with right now....new from MercyMe....Flawless

God is so good.  So caring and wonderful.  Some days it seems like nothing is right, everything hurts. I think it's those days that we have to look the most, the hardest for His visits.  They are there.  Some are obvious.  Some not so much.  When we hurt it is hard to see.  It's as if I had to pull away the darkness yesterday so I could see and feel God's light coming toward me, through me.  And I had to make the choice, time and time again, not to wallow in, not to surrender to that darkness.  The Lord's hand reached out to me through the radio, all I had to do was grab hold.  Maybe it's not the radio for you, maybe it's a friend, maybe something you read quick, a tv commercial you hear, a sign on a bus, maybe (and hopefully) this blog....whatever....Keep your heart and eyes open...God wants to visit.  His hand is always there to pull us up and out of whatever muck we find ourselves in.  

Thank You Lord for Your comfort, Your strength, Your care, Your love.  Thank You for Your great faithfulness.

Lamentations 3:22-23  

Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed. 

 Because His compassions fail not.  

They are new every morning. 

 Great is they faithfulness.