Do you ever feel that you are just unbelievable hard headed, or confused, or even stupid?  Well welcome to my day yesterday.  I had one of the worst days at work that I have had in awhile and just because of my own (for lack of a better word) stupidity.  It was one of those times where you stare at the turkey in the oven and wonder why it’s not cooking.  You look all around and wonder is the oven plugged in? Is the element inside the oven properly installed?  And after starring at it for about 3 hours you realize that the oven was not turned on.  And this is when you want to go slam your head in a door.  So throughout all of yesterday I struggled with this problem that I just could not get past (it wasn’t the oven by the way), and when it all came down to it the reason that the situation was screwed up is because I didn’t take the time to start it right.  I rushed through it, made some assumptions, and of course it was in front of other people which is always nice.  To make things even better I have a counterpart at work that is a polar opposite of myself so he had his comments to make and it was a situation where the devil really tempted me to lose my cool.  But rather than lose the witness and do that I introverted and just got into a foul mood and let the devil work me over that way.  And to be honest and transparent I even let it take me to a place that I just skipped church to take a break from everything.            Now, as if the day had not been stupid enough as it was I skipped church…(Insert Homer Simpson Dooaaaahhh).  The place where I can go to fellowship with fellow believers and cast my burdens down, I skipped.  So I simply made it worse.  Instead of focusing on God and His mercy and grace I focused on how hacked off I was.  So in essence I did one of the biggest mistakes as a Christian that we can make, I did not sit at the feet of my father and take up his yoke, and I carried my own.  Jesus instructs us in scripture to take His yoke and His burdens:

Matthew 11:28-30 (New American Standard Bible)
 28″ Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. 
29“Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30“For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”   

So instead of laying my burdens down at the cross and just relying on Christ and His comfort, I went around all puffed up and ignored all of the blessing and sacrifices that my Lord did for me.  This can and should if you are His follower keep all things in perspective.  Remember this scripture and be comforted, don’t make the same mistakes that I do ;o)

Romans 8:38-39 (New American Standard Bible) 
38For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,  39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God Bless ~ Tyler