Not Crying Over Spilled Milk
So, I woke up today feeling some kind of way, feeling a bit down and thinking about all that happened yesterday. In fact, I woke to a text message that wasn’t a bit encouraging, and yet, I was telling myself, ‘I am not going to be sad’.
I know the importance of telling myself ‘I am not going to be sad’ because I know that when I allow sadness in my life, or when I take the invitation to worry, then my day won’t be that cheerful or I won’t feel good that day.
And so, I really had to choose. I had to choose between feeling sad or feeling happy. I had to choose between laughter or frowns. I had to choose between looking at the fullness of the bright new day, and lots of goodies to come my way that new day or accepting the invitation to worry. I had to choose.
Sometimes, we experience things that weigh us down, things that don’t make us cheerful or bubbly. I get that sometimes. However, I have learned that it is how you respond that matters. It is how you respond that changes it.
Would you respond by saying a prayer to God and telling Him to take absolute control over the situation, and when you finish praying you immediately take your mind off it because you know that it is settled because you have prayed about it to God?
Or would you choose to mull over it and nurse the not-so-encouraging thoughts in your mind till it spreads to how you act in a day?
It is how we respond; it is the response we are choosing.
And so, I chose not to cry over the spilled milk literarily. I chose not to nurse the negative thoughts in my mind because I believe there is so much God has in store for me, and so much He wants me to do for this new day. And if I am not available to do it because of the negative thoughts in my head, then I am missing out.
I am of the belief that God settles everything and He has the best answer. My worrying over the situation won’t bring any change. It is God that will help my situation.
What are you mulling over today? What negative thoughts crosses your mind that makes you feel sorrowful?
Have you prayed over that situation? Have you taken it to God Who is always ready to listen to you? Are you choosing not worry over it, but rather to commit it to God?
I implore you to please take that situation to God, and be rest assured that God will intervene.
I’m choosing to take it all to the Lord, and trust Him completely with everything.
Remember what Jeremiah 17:7-8 says.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 (KJV) says, “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”
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