It's Friday and I'm not taking it too well!

Most people come back to life on Friday. Look at those at work. Friday is when they speak. They don’t just grunt when spoken to. It’s the only day of the week that complete sentences come from their mouths. It is an amazing resurrection because they had seemed dead and now they are so alive all because of the weekend.

I’m not taking it well because at least at the moment I have little to look forward to over the weekend. The same old stuff I must do but…no highlights. I started the day poorly as I walked the dog in the cool twilight just before dawn. I continued to dwell on others, their actions, the senseless nature of their deeds and deeds undone and the incongruity of their words and deeds. Honestly, I stewed all around the yard and beyond. The dog didn’t care. She was un-phased by the hypocrisy of their actions. But I was not!

People, they sure can mess you up. It bugs me when others can see what needs to be done, make accusations against others yet never lift a finger to do anything about the “important” task to be done. That just bugs me. I get hung up in my mind over what others should be doing or could be doing or would be doing. Yep, my hang up means I’m just like them not doing anything and complaining about others who aren’t doing either.

God knows that about me. Knowing me like He does he breathed the following into me today.    

It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! Hebrews 12:1-3 The Message

Yep, while I am hung up on others I am not looking at Jesus. My quit just did. I'm still thinking about it. So how did Jesus handle other people who should be, would be or could be? He made a connection with them and showed them how it was done.

I am to do the same.

Yep, those folks I was raking over the coals in my mind on the walk with the dog this morning, I am one of them.

I need to quit talking, quit looking around, set my sights on Jesus and get to following him.

It's Friday and I wasn't taking it too well. Changed my sights and looked to the One.

In HIS Service and Yours,

BroG