On Days and Off Days by Jon Burkholder
Some days, you’re just on, and everything is going your way. You’re on top of the world, and you can’t seem to lose. It doesn’t matter what the challenge is; go ahead and bring it on! You can handle it. You can handle anything.
As much as I love those days, there’s also the other end of the spectrum: off days. Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. It’s the Shaquille O’Neal missing the open dunk day: the day where the simplest tasks feel impossible, and you’re caught like a politician who’s had his teleprompter turned off. Do something right? Forget about it. This day was blown the second you crawled off the wrong side of the bed.
Why do things happen this way? Because we’re inconsistent. No matter how hard we try or how good we are, we can’t do everything right all the time. We can’t even do things right most of the time. We’re imperfect, and it shows big time.
But what if there was someone who didn’t have off days? What if you had a friend you could always count on, a mentor you could always lean on, somebody who always got it right %100 of the time. Of course we want someone like that in our lives! Who wouldn’t want to know somebody who was always reliable? Well, I know Someone like that. His name is Jesus. No matter what we’re going through, He never changes. No matter what’s troubling us, He will never be caught off guard. Impossible? Nothing is impossible for Him. He said so Himself, and I know it’s true because He wouldn’t say something if it wasn’t true. He is constant; He never changes. He never fails. He will never leave me or forsake me. He is my Savior and my GOD. He is the Keeper of my soul. Nothing is too difficult for Him, and nothing will ever be able to keep His love from me. No matter what I go through, I know that He is on my side, and that I’ll make it through, because if GOD is for me, who can be against me? No matter what goes wrong, or who betrays me, or how bad I fail, I will always have my Jesus, and that’s the only thing that matters.
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