Another Day Like All the Rest
Job 28:13
“Man does not know its worth, and it’s not found in the land of the living.”
Another day like all the rest…
I wake up to the sun rising and a new day ahead
Snoozing the alarm for the 5th time, I get the strength to rise up and begin…
Another day like all the rest.
In a rush running from one thing to the next
Shower, brush, get dressed. “Hurry up, you have no time left.”
I hurry out the door, realizing the drive I have ahead
I get in the car asking myself “Why couldn’t you have just gotten out of bed?”
I answer… It’s just another day like all the rest
I get to work just to sit and daydream about being anywhere else
I go through the motions hoping I blend in enough so no one will notice
Watching the clock tick by wishing time would fly
I hurry home where I will sit all alone
Another day like all the rest
Time for bed, but wait I have not checked…
My phone, how will I ever know
I scroll and scroll, suddenly my mind goes down a rabbit hole
“Maybe if I had their life I would be happier”, “What if my body looked like theirs, imagine how confident I would be.”
I tell myself “You are not enough; you are not as worthy.”
It all becomes too much, so I put it away and close my eyes on…
Another day like all the rest
I dream of having the lives I see on my screen, only to wake up feeling so empty
There goes my alarm again, as if it’s on repeat
Please, just 5 more minutes more. That’s all I’ll need
To get the strength to start…
Another day like all the rest
I’m done, I’m through
This has become something I’ve gotten too used to
I’m tired of rushing, I’m tired of not feeling my best
I don’t want anther day like all the rest
But how? How can I change it all around?
Maybe I’m too lost to be found
Forget it, It’s all too much
I guess I’ll just turn back to my crutch
Suddenly I’m met, right where I’m at
There’s a voice that says, “ If only you were to seek me as you do the world, you would find a love that can’t compare”
I cry out “Who’s there? Are you someone who cares?”
He replies “Child, I know the number of hairs on your head. I’ve always been here, you just haven’t met me yet. But, here I am and with you I will always stand.”
I reach out and grab his hand
Now I stand here weightless knowing, I’m the reason he came
He took my doubts and my shame, I know I am worthy all because of his glorious name
I woke up to another day like all the rest…
But, only today something has changed
I no longer seek the approval in the eyes of man
Instead, I find satisfaction in who I am
The one who created me, created me for a time such as this
And, this is a day I don’t want to miss
We live in a world where comparison and envy have quickly come to rule. Where satisfaction is found in materialistic haves and have nots, but in the end is never fully reached. Our worth has become tied to whom others call us to be, might as well say goodbye to confidence and self-esteem. How did we get here, you may ask?
We have turned from the nearness of our creator. The one who created us so beautifully and wonderfully, so intentionally and purposefully. The one who had each and every one of us in mind as he paid the price for our lives. How could this be? How could we forget where we came from? How could we lose sight of whose we are while chasing after desires of an empty heart? We search and find a glimpse of satisfaction to find out it’s not enough, then we search and find another just to continually be left feeling so empty.” What will ever be enough to satisfy?” you may wonder.
Well, it’s not a what, but a who. It’s Jesus and he is waiting for you. Cry out to him! He’s here. He’s listening. The Lord will fill you with the truth of who he calls you to be. He will put to rest the lies, the feelings of comparison, the doubts. Give it all to him and he will carry it for you. Friend, the Lord is near. May you call on him. A new day is ahead where your worth does not have to be found in the land of the living. No, it can be found in Jesus. The one in whom you will find true worth and rest.
Find peace in what the Lord says to each of his children in Matthew 6:25-34
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[a] 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
