Cure For the Monday Blues

Something about Monday has a tendency to get us down. It tends to be a day to be depressed, downtrodden, discouraged, disillusioned, and despondent? If you're not careful, you can have a completely skewed view of the world and your place in it.

Remember how depressed Solomon sounded when he looked around at his circumstances?

• "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit."  Ecclesiastes 2:17  

That is pretty serious depression, my friends...Matter of fact, I think I've read a couple of tweets along that line.

1. Stop looking at this physical world and expecting happiness from it.

What makes you different from the unsaved people you work with if you have to concentrate on physical things to bring you back your attitude back up to par?

• 2 Corinthians 4:18  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 

2. Don't allow your feelings to determine your mood.

Bill Rice III said, "Emotions make a wonderful caboose, but a terrible steam engine." You have a will and "you" get to decide what your body is going to do: either yield to the Spirit or to the flesh.

3. Meditate on what Jesus Christ has done, is doing right now, and will do for you.

Focus on Jesus Christ, because even though you haven't seen Him (Can't fellowship with Him through the five senses), you still have a reason to love Him.

• 1 Peter 1:8  Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: 

Comments

[Tim Delello]

Hey, I can imagine how it must feel to have married people telling single folks to have patience. So, I won't. I am reminded of the words of Paul as he addressed celibacy. To boil it down to the quick, "Marry" the things of God. Delight yourself in the Lord. The world has painted a picture of what life is supposed to be. Life should be in complete love with God. With or without a spouse. it is SO MUCH HARDER to have a proper walk with the Lord when you are constantly nurturing a relationship with a spouse. I am not saying stay single, but I am saying that God desires a relationship with you that exceeds "our father who art in heaven".