why i don’t have bad days
I don’t allow myself to have bad days, and I don’t think you should, either. I can have hard, sad, difficult, or discouraging days, but not bad days. And it’s not because I live a charmed life, never have any problems, or am naively optimistic.
I don’t believe in bad days because I don’t know enough of my story yet to say what’s bad or good. Looking back at my life, I see so many times where God used what I thought were my worst days to work for my good and save me from myself.
I’m so thankful that:
All those girls broke up with me, otherwise, I’d be in marriages that’d be a terrible fit for me.
I struggled at several jobs and had tough meetings with my bosses, otherwise I would have never admitted I was on the wrong career trajectory for my gifts.
Those hard conversations happened with friends and roommates, otherwise, I’d still be blind to and stuck in my flaws and brokenness.
I had frustrating and boring days where I made no progress because it showed me I was finding my identity in things other than Christ.
I’m not saying I sit around hoping for hard days, but when they happen, I try to remind myself of Tim Keller’s paraphrase of Romans 8:28: “God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows.”
Hard days aren’t bad days, but rather opportunities for you to trust that God is working for your good even when it doesn’t look like it. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s so crucial to growing in your faith.
Jonathan Edwards said it best: That through Christ, “Our bad things turn out for good, our good things can never be lost, and the best is yet to come.”
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