Grumpy

My 16 year old daughter had a case of the “grumpies” this morning.  She was moping on the way to school and I looked at her and smiled and said, “This is the day that the Lord has made.  Let us rejoice and be glad in it.”  She replied, “MOM! You just ruined it.  I really wanted to be grumpy.”

Isn’t that how it is with all of us from time to time.  We just “want” to be grumpy.  We know that God loves us.  We know that everything is going to be fine.  We just don’t want to get up.  We don’t want to go to school or to work.  We don’t want to be obedient.

God doesn’t ask us what we want to do.  He simply requires us to obey Him.  And we should do it with a good attitude. 

Do you think Jesus “wanted” to go to the cross and suffer and die for us?  I don’t think so.  In Luke 22:42, Jesus says "Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."  Jesus was willing to be obedient even to death. 

He requires so little from us and yet it is so easy for us to get the “grumpies.”  And we get them from the smallest things.

So the next time you get up early and you are tired and you don’t want to go to work (or school), remember how much Jesus loves you.  Put a smile on your face, rejoice, and press on.