Monday! I love Monday! The bustle of the week-end is gone, and now I find myself enjoying getting caught up on laundry, picking up and straightening the house, unloading clean dishes and reflecting on church services yesterday.
Our Sunday school class was inspiring, taught by a college president, and our pastor preached a riveting, thought-provoking and challenging message woven and interspersed with entertaining applications of his adventurous boyhood in Mississippi. The sobering climax ended with time at the altar for everyone!
There is a song, popular several years ago, called "Rainy Days and Mondays," sung in the haunting, beautiful voice of Karen Carpenter. The lyrics begin, "Hanging around, nothing to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays always get me down."
Well, rainy days, of which we've had many lately, might get me down, but Mondays, the beginning of a new week, do not. The Bible says in Psalm 118:24, "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."
I have read that this was the hymn that Jesus and the disciples sang at the last supper.It is from the Hallel, one of six psalms, and is a Jewish prayer. Matthew 26:30, "And when they had sung an hymn they went out into the mount of Olives."
If Jesus could sing that, knowing what He would face, we all should rejoice and be glad for whatever the day holds, especially on Monday!
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