A Heart Untroubled

This week I saw a few posts on Facebook about 'hump day'.  This is a term used to talk about Wednesday when you hit come over the 'hump' of the week and starts speeding towards the weekend.  I also see lots of posts about the drudgery of Mondays. It really hit me today, that these kind of things, though silly, are indicative of a heart level belief, that Mondays are hard and it's a drag as you go back to work or school.  People live for the weekend, and approach the week with a sense of, not exactly dread, but you know what I mean. The trouble is the more we blend these thoughts into our lives, the more likely it is that will find Monday's tiresome etc. The point I want to make is this; how we think about things, is how we talk about them, and eventually it is how they will actually be for us. The bible says that the power of life and death is in the tongue. (Prov 18:21).  What comes out of your mouth has power whether you realize it, or not.  What co

t is interesting how many times in the New Testament we are told to continue in something: Continue in the faith; continue in love; continue in prayer; continue in the word; continue in his goodness and continue in the things you've learned, to name a few. I think it is human nature to quit and give up more often that to persevere, but the Christian life has always been a marathon rather than a sprint, and there are lots of exhortations to keep going, endure and hold on.  Life is full of stuff that shouldn't be here - sickness, loss, death and rubbish things, but the comfort we find in our faith is to hold on, keep praying, keep believing, keep in the Word and God WILL work it all out.  That's not a vain hope, because over and over God proves himself faithful, and even though we live in a fallen world, God is still able to bring his love, his peace and his guidance into our lives. In Matthew 14 we read about Peter walking on the water to Jesus.  He climbs out of the bo