It’s been a good week

The psalmist writes “…weeping may tarry for the night but JOY comes in the morning.” I tend to write a lot about dealing with struggles. I don’t know if I have a proclivity towards darkness or if it is typically when people struggle that they reach out to a pastor for help thus the reason for many of my posts. I am not going to sugar coat it…the last two years have been the hardest of my life. Planting Live Oak Church has proved to be the most difficult thing I have ever done. It has tested my faith, my strength, my family, my finances and my emotions.

However, this week was a good week. I don’t know exactly why it was a good week. I seem to be sleeping better, I am eating better, I am more disciplined in my prayer life. It seems like this week, I just breathed in and for probably the first time….really felt like the pastor of Live Oak Church. We are reaching people, discipling people, baptizing people, training people, empowering people all for the purpose of spreading the gospel of Jesus to Johns Island.

I was having a conversation with a man last night and he introduced me as his pastor, it was no longer weird. I feel called to pastor him, I feel called to pastor Live Oak…I feel called to pastor all of Johns Island (whether you go to my church or not).

So…I had a good week. I mention this not to brag but to encourage you to remember your good moments. In the Old Testament when people had an encounter with God they built an alter so that whenever they came across it, it would remind them of that encounter. Do something to remember your GOOD days. Don’t simply harp and hang on the bad days. Embrace the good ones, thank God for the good ones, pray for more good ones.

Examine your good days, what made them good? Are there transferable behaviors that you can duplicate to ensure more good days.

Maybe you had a bad week, know that a good one is coming. Maybe you had a good week, know that a bad one is coming…but when it does…know that JOY always comes in the morning.

What would make a good day for you, reply in the comments.