Blahs to Hurrahs; Psalm 121, Proverbs 20

May the mumbling commence!

The dreariness of winter can exacerbate our blahs.  Cold weather can make it rather difficult to crawl out from under the warmer cocoon of blankets on our beds and couches.  It is quite easy to withdraw from the world, to withdraw into one’s own self.  It is quite easy to be looking down at our socked feet in despair.

But, listen to the promise of looking up and looking around.  Help comes from the Lord.  We will not find the help that we need by looking inward or failing to look around us.  Read Psalm one-hundred twenty-one:

I will lift up my eyes to the hills –

From whence comes my help? 

My help comes from the Lord,

Who made heaven and earth. 

He will not allow your foot to be moved;

He who keeps you will not slumber. 

Behold, He who keeps Israel

Shall neither slumber nor sleep. 

The Lord is your keeper;

The Lord is your shade at your right hand. 

The sun shall not strike you by day,

Nor the moon by night. 

The Lord shall preserve you from all evil;

He shall preserve your soul. 

The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in

From this time forth, and even forevermore.

Help is available from the Lord at all times – 24/7.  God has no need of rest.  When we call upon the Lord, we will never get an automated recording with a list of menu options.  We will always get the caring and compassionate ear of the Lord.

So, let us slough off the blahs of winter.  No chill will bite us.  Rain and sleet and ice and snow cannot stop the help of the Lord.  We can rely on the Lord even more than we rely on the postal service.

Let us make the effort to look up and look around for the working of the Spirit of God in our midst.  Let us joyfully join the work of the Spirit.  Then the blahs of winter and life will be engulfed in the hurrahs of life with our Lord.

When I make the effort, I am never disappointed, seldom bored, and often pleasantly surprised at what the Lord can accomplish through a willing servant.  God does great works through this dull instrument that I am.

Guide our ways, O Lord.  Without You, we are lost.  Read from Proverbs chapter twenty:

A man's steps are of the Lord;

How then can a man understand his own way? (Verse 24)

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out