Waking Up on the Right Side of the Bed

Some days, I just want to stay under my covers and pretend like there aren't classes to be attended, tests to be taken, practices to be at, work to do, conflicts to sort out... Satan likes to get inside my head and tell me I'm weak, and that I don't have the strength I need to get through my day or whatever task is before me. My mind gets diverted from the end goal by the distractions to my left and right. When my focus is sidetracked, every aspect of my life seems much more cloudy.

I hate feeling pessimistic about life. I know that there is so much for me to be thankful for, yet sometimes it can be difficult to climb out of the self-pity pit. When sitting in this pit, life loses its colorfulness. Everything becomes a bland shade of gray. I can imagine that Satan just loves when I'm in this mood.

There are different ways to rise above this bleak dreary pit. It requires an intentionality; a decision to look on the bright side. It requires a perspective change. In their song Perspectives, Kutless writes "why can't you see freedom is sometimes just simply another perspective away? Who could you be if your lens was changed for a moment, would you still be the same?" It requires surrender of selfishness and pride, and a reliance on God to provide and help us get through each day, each task, as it comes.

No matter what the world or Satan tries to tell us, we are not powerless. We are where we are for a reason and for such a time as this. We need to keep an eternal perspective and keep our eyes on the end-goal and run our race of life in such a way as to win the prize. (1 Cor 9:24)

Here is a verse that's been a huge encouragement and a great reminder to me lately of what my perspective should be when I rise each day:

Romans 8:37-39 ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.