Releasing Light for a Monday

My eyes open...it's dark...quiet. I listen to the rain knocking on the window...wanting to get in...I breath in the cold damp air in my room.  It's almost time to rise...start a new week...but the cloudiness of the morning sky is reflecting my inner struggle this morning.  

I think for a moment...why are Monday's so hard?  Where is the joy of the weekend past?  Of Friday afternoon, quitting time?  Regardless of my feelings about this cold harsh world, about anything surrounding me on the outside, what is this inner struggle I battle with most Mondays?  I know I'm not alone...but I need some light shed on this narrative of negativity.  After all, am I not a new creation?  Hasn't the old passed away?  Where do you find joy in the rain on Monday?

I open my inbox...a verse for Monday morning is waiting...perhaps to speak to my soul.  Awaken the new creation inside...shed light...the enemy and his lies, his dread, his anxiety can't live in the light.  I think for a moment, if Father God reflects what he pours out into us...love, kindness, joy, peace...then Satan must reflect the nastiness of depression, condemnation, despair. That is what he is...who he is.  His lies are based upon his make up.  A crack of light shines inside...

1 John 3:1-3 appears on the screen in the newest translation...the Voice. It does feel like the voice...his voice to my heart.  Embedded at the end of verse one, the narrative speaks to me...we should remember that God's love is greater than our doubts.  We must silence the sounds of condemnation so we can hear the voice of God's loving assurance...  

As I read on, something catches me in verse 3:  All those who focus their hopes on Him....seek to purify...  

Am I not seeking to be purified from this Monday morning filth in my head?  

I stop...the life choking lies stop for a second as more light begins to pour in.  Beams of light piercing the flesh of the beast...he shrinks in stature.  

I read some key words again...we should remember....we must silence....all those who focus...  

I think for a moment...I know God loves me, I know there's hope in him...goodness in him...a reason to live in him...but if I face every Monday without remembering, without attempting to silence, without focus I am simply allowing the enemy to slime me with his identity...his lies poisoning my veins as if I don't have a mighty Saviour who has already defeated death...has already defeated him!  It's not about me striving to silence these voices, but giving Jesus his rightful place...at the forefront...on the front lines of the battle, fighting it for me.  But God is a gentleman and has given me a choice...he never forces.  

Every Monday morning....do you choose to remember?  to silence the lies?  to focus on the TRUTH?  I am a new creation...to be renewed every day!  Monday's past are just that...in the past...the old has gone...the new is here!  Monday can have light abundant! 

(2 Corinthians 5:17)

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