If life gives you lemons... Daily Devotional July 9th 2009

Daily Bible Reading Plan - 1 Samuel 21-22, Isaiah 65, Matthew 10

If life gives you lemons... (1 Samuel 22:1-2)

I am sure we have all heard the term, "if life gives you lemons make lemonade". Or here is another one, "just play the cards God dealt you", and, "life is what you make of it. As true as these statements are they usually come to us at inopportune moments when we don't want to hear them.

Although we may not like to hear them I have come to realize that not only are they true but they are biblical in nature. I understand that life is not so much about what happens to you but rather how you handle what happens to you. The Bible says in Matthew 5:45, "It rains on the just and the unjust". In other words bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people and the other way around.

As we look at today's passage we see that David must have understood the principle of making lemonade out of the lemons that he had received in life. In this passage David is hiding in a cave to save his life. If that is not bad enough all the people that are in distress, in debt and bitter about something came to him to hang out. Can someone say, "bad day!" If that would have been me I would have gone and found a new cave or made everyone leave. David though does the opposite of this and decides to become their leader. Wow, life really is what you make of it.

I need to learn to do what David did in this passage more in my life and the situations that happen to me. I need to take the lemons in life and make lemonade and if I really get ambitious open up a lemonade stand. I think it is time that we stop complaining about the things that are happening to us, distress, debt or bitterness and start using it as an opportunity.

What about you and situations and your life? What things are you dealing with and what circumstances are getting you down? It is time to change your outlook, play the cards you are dealt and make some lemonade because life really is what you make of it.

Tomorrows Bible Reading - I Samuel 23, Isaiah 66, Matthew 11

Dream Big
Ben