Having A Bad Hair day?

(1 Corinthians 13:4) “Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited,”

(Colossians 3:12) “Therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.”

(2 Peter 1:5-7) “For this very reason, you must make every effort to supplement your faith with moral character, your moral character with knowledge, your knowledge with self-control, your self-control with endurance, your endurance with godliness, your godliness with brotherly kindness, and your brotherly kindness with love.”

Have you heard the expression “A bad Hair Day”? It basically means that some days, things just don’t always go as you planned. That no matter what you set out to do, everything seems to fall apart. That you wake up a little less joyous and a little more irritated than usual. Basically, a day when you keep on giving up on everything and everyone and asking yourself “What’s the point, why even bother?”

Because we still live in this body and are easily affected by our emotions, God has given us the tools to handle correctly people facing a tough situation or simply having a bad day. God advises us to be kind and patient with those suffering and to always show our love towards them. This is not easy to do, especially with those that are close to you as we tend to take their negativity personally and have a harder time forgiving them for their constant lack of compassion towards us.

We are instructed to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, which God apparently provides for us. This is not an advice or a suggestion, but a command from God. He won´t force you to love anyone who constantly annoys you or is rude to you, but if you decide to obey Him and do it anyway, you will be surprised at how God transforms you from the inside.

In 2 Peter we read that there is a process before we can love others the way God wants us to. We have to add moral character to our faith, then knowledge, then self-control and so on and so forth. So don’t expect to love everyone unconditionally right away, but at the same time don’t think it is impossible.

Don’t forget that you have also had a “bad hair day”, and God has had to transform everyone around you on that day so that you would not end up hurting anyone with your bad attitude. I´m not saying to be completely false with everyone, but just think before you speak and maybe consider that they might be going through a tough situation that is troubling them.

(“Paul is talking here about using tact. Tact is kindness with brains. It’s a way of putting your best foot forward without actually putting your foot in your mouth or stepping on anyone’s toes.” – Bob Gass)

Prayers

• Jesus, Your blood speaks better things, It’s the blood of the new covenant, the blood of the everlasting covenant.
• Thank You that we are daily transformed from the inside with Your love.
• Thank You that all the tools have been provided for us in order to love those that are going through a difficult situation.
• Forgive us for our pride when we take to heart and get offended if anyone is rude to us.
• We clothe ourselves right now with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience.
• We supplement our faith with moral character, our moral character with knowledge, our knowledge with self-control, our self-control with endurance, our endurance with godliness, our godliness with brotherly kindness, and our brotherly kindness with love.
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• We ask in Jesus’ Mighty Name. Amen