Happy Monday!

TODAY IS A NEW DAY.

And although l’m fully aware that five words can’t solve your problems or dry up your issues (or your basements) or cure you of all that ails you…. there IS power in these five words. Let this be our bold declaration today. 

Write it out on paper, like writing it on your heart!! 

Think of them as your five smooth stones to defeat the giant, even though you only need one. 

Think of them as a dip in the Jordan.

Here’s what I mean-

There once was a guy named Naaman who stood in need of great healing. When told to dip in the Jordan to do so, his response was, in so-many-words…

Are you kidding me? Do you know who I am? I’m the one in charge around here! I’m a guy of great honor and rank! There’s GOT to be something more noble than THAT for me to do? There’s got to be something much harder than taking a plunge into a nasty gross river? It took Naaman’s servant to put it into perspective for him…

Listen my father, if the prophet had told you to do some great big grand thing, wouldn’t you have done it? Then why in the world won’t you do this one simple thing?

Naaman needed that perspective. I think at times we all do.

Amen.

I could say a million more things about this story but I’ll run out of room so let me just wrap up with THIS…

TODAY IS A NEW DAY.

To ask God, beg God, plead with God or beseech. 

A new day to behold what may potentially lie ahead expectantly…and not dreadfully. 

A new day that we know has the potential to be freshly restocked like new white towels in the linen closet with grace and mercies and compassions and all the sweet-smelling fragrance God’s got.

YES.

Beloved…

If yesterday was not everything you hoped for, today is a new day.

If yesterday drained you, today is a new day.

If yesterday left you feeling hopeless, today is a new day.

TODAY IS A NEW DAY.

I pray these five words alone brought even the *slightest* touch of healing to you today.

For you are worthy of love.

And don’t you forget it.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh, and strength to your bones.”  Proverbs 3:5-8