549 Is This a Bad Week?

Welcome to what many have predetermined as one tough week. The seemingly negative factors are stacked up 3 high for this week of living. One: We woke up sleepy this morning because the clocks changed and we’re forced to get up an hour earlier than our normal routine. Two: We have a full moon coming this week, and we all know people be acting crazy on the full moon. Three: Friday is the unluckiest of all days, Friday the 13th. Whew, ya’ll according to Facebook and popular beliefs, we have one heck of a week ahead of us! And it could be. It could be unusually hard if that’s what you’re looking for. It could be extra chaotic and hectic if you believe that as your truth. It could be unlucky if unlucky is your predetermined perspective. But, you know what my God tells me … he tells me I am not powerless in my life. He tells me in Matthew 7:7 “seek and ye shall find”. Meaning, whatever I’m looking for, I will surely see it. Whatever I have my mind set on, I will find it. Whatever my perspective is, I will experience it. Romans 12:2 says “Do not copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” There are a whole lot of people who woke up dreading this day and dreading this week. Don’t copy their behavior. Don’t fall into the trap of seeking negative, and therefore experiencing the negative. Let God transform you into a new person, and that happens with changing the way you think. So, let’s apply this transforming power to our reality today. 1. Reality, daylight savings time just began. Reality, what was formerly 4 am is now 5 am, so my alarm rang in the pitch dark of the night. How about yours? We likely feel extra sleepy and drag butty today because while the clock says it’s an hour later, our body still says it’s not. We’re out of our routine and most of us really covet that precious final hour of sleep. And what do we do about it? We complain. We fill our thoughts and our conversations with how hard it was to wake up this morning, how unfortunate this time change business is and how negatively it affects our lives during this adjustment. But girl, wait a dang minute … have we forgotten what this means? We’re looking at this wrong. This is a glorious gift. This time change means we’re preparing to welcome a new season of warmth! Spring forward means you can now look forward to Spring! All winter we’ve complained about the cold, now here we are at the first signs of a new season ahead and we’re complaining? OH NO YOU DIDN’T. It may be a customary behavior, but don’t you be copying that. God wants you to be the person who leads the way with different thoughts. Sure we may wake up an hour earlier, but doesn’t that mean we get to be fully ALIVE an extra hour? Doesn’t that mean we can accomplish more? Doesn’t that mean we get to see more of what God has prepared for us today? And doesn’t that also mean the sun will be setting an hour later as well? Doesn’t that mean we get more daylight, more time to enjoy the evening before it’s declared night? Oh my gosh, this is actually a gift totally worth waking up for! This is my favorite time, why would I ever complain about it? And here’s the awesome thing, when God transforms us into a new person by changing the way we think, we begin to experience things we were once missing out on. We won’t spend a precious minute of our lives complaining about something we can’t change anyway. The time changed, we will find every last benefit of this new time and we will dwell in goodness. Plain and simple, seek good, find good.