Fighting That Monday Morning Feeling…On Tuesday

The Good Book blog (one you really should check out) offers Scripture each Monday morning, usually taking pastors into consideration. This was their offering yesterday:

Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. – 1 Timothy 1:15-17

It’s Tuesday, I know, but that doesn’t mean those feelings, those premonitions, those hard jabs to the soul disappear as soon as the clock strikes 12.01 a.m. on Tuesday. So, this passage is a good remedy for the blues seeking to swallow me up. It is a trustworthy saying. It is the truth (‘…the word of the Lord proves true…’ – 2 Samuel 22.31). Deserving of full acceptance, of repeated reading out loud, of constant preaching to myself: He came to save me, a sinner. He demonstrated His love for me, while I was still a sinner. And He still does!

Amen.