“So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters swarmed, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.” So the evening and the morning were the fifth day.” (Genesis 1:21-23 MEV)
If we start counting with Sunday as the first day of the week, this Thursday will be the fifth day of this week. While it would be mere foolishness, an adventure in audacious thinking to compare to the creative power of Almighty God, the Creator, you and me can agree on one thing. That one thing is that with the power of the Holy Spirit we can assure by our actions, that at the end of this fifth day, we as individuals can look back and assert, in a self-evaluating way, referring to our behavior, “And it was good.”
That’s going to a great assessment and I pray that it will be genuine appraisal too, on this fifth day! Let me clarify what I mean. We will be able to say, “When it came to living as a member of a holy nation, and it was good.” Looking at how we functioned as real, revealed members of a royal priesthood, as we spoke works and performed deeds in such a way that it helped others at least consider coming out of darkness into the marvelous light, we will be able to say, “And it was good.” At the end of this fifth day, because we were walking, talking, and thinking with our mind stayed on Jesus and because we did not stray from the narrow path of righteous, we will be able to say, “And it was good.”
In retrospect, as we shall look back on this fifth day, we will see that people may have irritated us, but we inclined to love then intentionally and instinctively treat them like we would be inclined to want to treat ourselves. We will see that while people angered us, and yes maybe we got angry, but we sinned not; not letting the sun go down on our anger. Also, we will see that when stress was coming out of our subconscious being, all to Jesus we surrendered and we stopped the stress from sneaking out in the form of displacement, definite projection, or any other defense mechanism of a negative nature. Our retrospective review of this fifth day, will reveal while folks may have talked about you and me, trying to put us down, instead of putting them down, we merely put our knees down, put our hands together and put forth a prayer up to our Father on those folks behalf.
I’m hoping that our God consciousness will take over and have great influence on this fifth day. I’m hoping that we are going in agreement this morning to let the Lord direct our paths, so at the end of this fifth day, in more ways than I can mention, we will both be able to summarize the day with these words, “And it was a good day.”
Let’s go ahead with our minds made up to live like Christians ought! Start right now! Rejoice and have a good day, on this fifth day! Be blessed!
“This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 RSV)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King