THOUGHT OF THE DAY, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: BAD DAY
Your two year old child plays with the key fob to your car and triggers the alarm system so that you can’t get the doors open. When you do find someone to fiddle with the locks and get it open, you find that the engine won’t start because the alarm system is still enabled. You are now late for work. You go to use your cell phone call a tow truck and your employer to find that the cell towers are not working today where you live. The next day, you discover that the water company has shut off the water main for an emergency pipe break and it is uncertain how long it will take. Someone totals your husband’s car. It seems like the bad just keeps going on and on. You can choose to wallow in self-pity and tell your story to all your friends, post it on Facebook, or you can choose to give to Jesus in prayer, draw a line in the sand right then, and start fresh in your heart. Bad day “Through the Lord’s mercies ...