Jeremiah 31:7-9
I will put yesterday down as one of the better days in my recent life. I actually made it through the day without a single grouchy moment. Normally I would have at least one of those moments, usually when I'm in the middle of doing something and I get interrupted more times than I want to or when I'm trying to help someone understand something and they just don't understand. Yesterday, however, it seems that everything went smoothly.
Thinking back to how yesterday was different than any other day I have to say I'm not sure. I was interrupted many times and there was more than one moment in which my instructions weren't being understood, but I didn't get grouchy. What, then, was the difference?
This morning's passage helps me to better understand why my yesterday was better. I can honestly say everything I did was for someone else, and when I did do something for myself it didn't interrupt anyone else.
It would seem that these past few weeks I've done what I often do; forget to accept help in the things I need to get done. This eventually makes me want to be isolated, which is never a good thing for me or others around me. Yesterday I did things for others, without thought to myself, and in a way that invited everyone to be included. I didn't allow myself to be isolated. In the relationships I experienced yesterday I found a peace that brought with it honest happiness.
Not only was I happy, but those I interacted with seemed to find comfort in the things they came for help with. In today's passage Jeremiah reminds us that things are bad and might get worse, but we have a God whom we can go to with our troubles and that our God will take us in, hold us tight, take us through our trials, and bring us out on the other side.
Relationships are important, especially those with God and others and our selves.
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