A case of the Mondays

Oh friends, it has been a Monday! My wonderful friend Johanna put up a blog that surprisingly gave me hope.

This is Johanna, we met in 2003 when I helped her drag her boxes up to her dorm room just across the hall from mine. Then she magically showed up at a Christian camp for incoming freshmen. This started a marvelous friendship full of road trips, deer in the headlights, football games, costume parties and late night discussions. What a splendid friend and blessing to have in my life throughout college and beyond!!! THIRD-SHORTIES FOREVER!!!!!

Anyway, her Blog was about her view of predestination, I know that it is a very controversial issue and can often cause a sinking sadness for the lost. But despite what you or I believe about the issue, her message and view gave me hope in God’s Sovereign Will over my life. How, despite the hardships of Mondays, he is guiding me through and it is all, his entire plan (even Mondays.) His plan may not be what I want or easy in the least bit but since it is his plan it will ultimately produce good. What Joy!

Psalms 146 (ESV)

1 Praise the LORD!
Praise the LORD, O my soul!
2 I will praise the LORD as long as I live;
I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.

3 Put not your trust in princes,
in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth;
on that very day his plans perish.

5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD his God,
6 who made heaven and earth,
the sea, and all that is in them,
who keeps faith forever;
7 who executes justice for the oppressed,
who gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets the prisoners free;

8 the LORD opens the eyes of the blind.
The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down;
the LORD loves the righteous.
9 The LORD watches over the sojourners;
he upholds the widow and the fatherless,
but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin.

10 The LORD will reign forever,
your God, O Zion, to all generations.
Praise the LORD!