Do you feel stuck? Does it feel like you're just doing the same thing day in and day out? Do you look around and think everyone has a whole lot more excitement in their lives than you do? 

Most of our lives are spent going the same speed and the same direction. Once in a while we change lanes or even merge onto a new highway, but then we resume where we were. 

1 Corinthians 2:4 reminds us that “Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.” Faithful, not just in those exciting moments, but in the Days in Between.

We do this by first changing our GRUMBLING into GRATEFULNESS.

Let’s do as 1 Thess. 5:18 says and give thanks in everything! Be thankful for every diaper you have to change- someday it will be the last one! Be thankful for every form you have to fill out at work- you have a job! Be thankful for every screen you’ve had to confiscate (again)- it’s building their character! Be thankful for every ‘laugh line’ - God has given such joy!

Have you grumbled today? Find a way to turn it into GRATEFULNESS!

Next, we need to turn our SULKING into SINGING.

In Psalm 13 David starts off sounding sulky but by the end of the passage he is remembering the Lord’s bountiful dealings with him and it causes him to SING!

“I will sing unto the LORD, because He hath dealt bountifully with me.”

How long have you let sulkiness last? How long have you gone without a song to the Saviour? Has it been hours? Days? Weeks? 

With Jesus we ALWAYS have a song to sing!

Last of all we need to lift our eyes from the RUT to our REDEMPTION.

Do you know that sometimes we get comfortable in our rut, in our misery. Playing the victim can be addictive. These days it’s even praised and applauded. 

If you find yourself in a rut just remember WHO is there with you and the promise we have in Luke 21:28b - look up, and lift up your heads; for your REDEMPTION draweth nigh. This life does not last, but while it does remember that in our rut the Good Shepherd is with us and gives us the hope of our REDEMPTION.

I’ll finish with these verses that are full of encouragement and hope for the Days in Between:

Romans 8:23-25 “And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”