Bad Days

Bad days. We all have them, whether we are young or old, bad days just come along. Our little guy had one of those days yesterday. Nothing seemed to go right for him and everything turned into a crying session. It’s one thing to have a bad day when you’re an adult and can understand what is happening, and then it’s another thing when you’re three and can’t express what you’re feeling. It’s hard to be patient during those times with little ones and try to get them to understand why they can’t do certain things they feel they have the right to do.

I think God goes through the same thing with us as His children. We go through bad days and we don’t understand why we can’t do what we feel we have the right to do. We get frustrated, we get mad, we may even cry as we search for answers. With our limited knowledge of what lies ahead of us, we want to forge our own path ahead no matter what, and sometimes God tells us “no”. We are like our three year old, who doesn’t understand what we know and the dangers we may be keeping him from by telling him “no”. He is living only in the current moment and doesn’t understand fully what we do based upon our experiences and our own past failures.

God has no past failures, but He does have eternal experience that we do not; it’s called sovereignty. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” - Isaiah 55:8-9.

So, as we experience bad days like my little guy did yesterday because of his lack of understanding, let us remind ourselves that God’s ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Let us go to Him in obedient prayer and not as little children throwing a fit because we did not get our way. He may just let us have our way to show us our limited understanding.

Have a great day and God bless.