Good Days

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. The LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land; and the waters were divided.

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On a good day, I know it ain't every day
We can part the sea
And on a bad day, I know it ain't every day
Glory beyond our reach

"Wiser Time" written by Chris Robinson and Rich Robinson, recorded by The Black Crowes on "Amorica"

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It's amazing what constitutes a "good day." It could be your team winning the game. It could be getting through the traffic light that always get stops you. It could be a "thanks" from a friend or co-worker.

Something that always makes the day a "bad day" is when the people of Israel cry out to “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt? Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt, ‘Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.” That will make you get a "do-over" on the day.

What these two things have in common is what controls a day being good or bad. Those things are external events. Some are good, the kind of thing you want to have happen everyday. The other, well who couldn't live without the nation crying for our heads on a platter.

What makes a day better is the true and certain knowledge of Emmanuel, God with you. The Lord knew what was on Moses' plate, the Lord could hear the initial wails and Moses crying to the whirlwind praying for salvation. It is the coming salvation that makes the day fine.

What was a bad day became a good day with glory beyond our reach. That's the way it should always be.