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Monday Grace

I thought originally of entitling this "Monday MOURNING"...a play on words, yes, and sometimes an apt description of crawling out of bed, knowing that the week ahead seems large and long, and while the weekend was great, it's over and now its back to the grind.

That word "Grind" is the way in which we often look at work...It's gotta be done...I've done it 100's, 1000's of times, but it has to be done again.  The Grind is that feeling that sometimes the Bible conveys as "weight"...the burden...the work...the mess.  It's true, life is sometimes a grind.

For the Christian though other things enter in.  For example, faithfulness and grace.  Faithfulness is a feature of people of faith.  We have faith in God - it is a gift of God to us, Paul reminds us in Ephesians 2.

Faithfulness is a character trait of God.  We are reminded over and over again that when we wake up, God's grace and faithfulness are right there to meet us.

1 Corinthians 1:4 & 9 
4  I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,

9  God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 

 It is so much a character trait of God, that he cannot Not be faithful, even when we are.  
2 Timothy 2:13 
13  if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself. 

I don't know about you, but that's good news any day of the week - but especially on Monday.  If your week is anything like mine you need to have the encouragement that as you do your work, God will be faithful...he has enough grace for our needs.

Struggling?  2 Corinthians 12:9 
9  But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 

Trying to keep your head above water, feeling overwhelmed by tasks and to-dos?  His grace is sufficient and grace especially works well in times of weakness.

Can't feel the purpose, the goal, the motivation?  We all go through it, but we're reminded again that God has more than enough for our needs.
1 Timothy 1:14
14  ...the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 

I usually end these with the word Peace...we need it.  We need to let God's faithfulness and God's grace flow over us like a good shower washing our bodies clean.  It's not Monday Mourning, it's Monday Grace that makes it possible to face what's ahead.

Ephesians 1:2
2  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 


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