Monday has a reputation. It arrives uninvited, heavy with the memory of yesterday’s rest and the weight of the week’s demands. The alarm sounds, the list grows, and before our feet touch the cold floor, the mind is already running ahead — to the work unfinished, the problems unsolved, the burdens unresolved. Monday, for many, feels less like a gift and more like a sentence.
But beloved, Monday belongs to the Lord.
The Face You Choose First
Charles Spurgeon once wrote, “It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.” What a word for the beginning of a new week. We are creatures of habit, and nothing shapes the habit of a day more powerfully than where we look first. Before the telephone, before the mirror, before the news of the world rushes in like a flood — there is a Face to seek, a throne to approach, a Father to greet.
The Psalmist understood this well. “My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up” (Psalm 5:3). Notice that word — look up. The posture of Monday morning is not a downcast gaze at the week’s troubles, but an upward look toward the God who has already ordained every hour of it.
Do not let Monday steal the morning. Give the morning to God, and Monday will find its proper place — as a servant, not a master.
Your Emptiness Is Not an Accident
Maybe you'll come to this Monday feeling dry. The Lord’s Day was full, and now the well seems low. You poured out — in worship, in fellowship, in service — and now the week calls for more, and you wonder where it will come from.
Spurgeon speaks tenderly to this very soul: “Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.” Your felt weakness this Monday morning is not a sign of spiritual failure. It is a hollow vessel, ready for fresh filling. The Lord does not send His people into a new week and then withhold His grace. He who called you to this day has already stored up sufficient mercy for every hour of it.
The Apostle Paul knew this rhythm. “I can do all things through Christ, which strengthened me” (Philippians 4:13). Not through yesterday’s strength, not through last week’s reserves — but through Christ, who is the same on Monday as He is on the Lord’s Day. His grace is not a Sunday commodity. It is daily bread.
Ordinary Days, Sacred Ground
One of the great lies the world tells us is that only certain days are sacred — only the grand moments, the high occasions, the Sunday services. But the Puritan fathers understood something gloriously different. They believed the entirety of life, when lived unto God, is holy. As Spurgeon himself put it, “The shop, the barn, the kitchen, and the workbench become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God.”
Your Monday, dear friend, is holy ground. The kitchen where you make breakfast for your children — holy ground. The drive to work, the conversation with a neighbor, the honest labor of your hands — holy ground. God is not absent from your ordinary week. He inhabits it. He fills it. He governs it with sovereign care.
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians, “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men” (Colossians 3:23). This was written not for ministers alone, but for servants, for tradesmen, for mothers and fathers and children — for all who bear the name of Christ in the common flow of life. Every Monday, task done heartily unto the Lord is an act of worship as real as any sung in the assembly.
He Made This Day
Return once more to the text: “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24).
The Psalmist does not say, “This is a pleasant day,” or “This is an easy day.” He says it is a day the Lord has made. Crafted. Appointed. Purposed. This Monday was not an accident. It did not escape God’s notice or slip past His sovereign hand. He made it — and He made it for you, for His glory, for your growth, for the good of those around you.
Therefore, rejoice. Not because Monday is easy, but because the God who made it is good. Not because the week ahead is light, but because the One who walks through it with you is strong. The joy here is not a feeling worked up by the flesh — it is a settled confidence of the soul that says, “My God is in this day, and therefore I will not fear it.”
Go Into the Week Looking Up
Beloved, lift your eyes. The week that lies before you is not a wilderness to be survived — it is a stewardship to be lived. Every conversation is an opportunity for grace. Every trial is an instrument of sanctification. Every mercy that meets you on the road — and there will be many — is a tender reminder that your Father’s eye is upon you.
Look into the right Face first.
Go to Him before you go to the world. Let the Throne Room be your first appointment this Monday morning, and all other appointments will fall into their proper order.
“The LORD’S mercies… are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22–23).
New this morning. New this Monday. New for you.
Go, and rejoice in it.
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— Your Pastor
But beloved, Monday belongs to the Lord.
The Face You Choose First
Charles Spurgeon once wrote, “It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.” What a word for the beginning of a new week. We are creatures of habit, and nothing shapes the habit of a day more powerfully than where we look first. Before the telephone, before the mirror, before the news of the world rushes in like a flood — there is a Face to seek, a throne to approach, a Father to greet.
The Psalmist understood this well. “My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up” (Psalm 5:3). Notice that word — look up. The posture of Monday morning is not a downcast gaze at the week’s troubles, but an upward look toward the God who has already ordained every hour of it.
Do not let Monday steal the morning. Give the morning to God, and Monday will find its proper place — as a servant, not a master.
Your Emptiness Is Not an Accident
Maybe you'll come to this Monday feeling dry. The Lord’s Day was full, and now the well seems low. You poured out — in worship, in fellowship, in service — and now the week calls for more, and you wonder where it will come from.
Spurgeon speaks tenderly to this very soul: “Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.” Your felt weakness this Monday morning is not a sign of spiritual failure. It is a hollow vessel, ready for fresh filling. The Lord does not send His people into a new week and then withhold His grace. He who called you to this day has already stored up sufficient mercy for every hour of it.
The Apostle Paul knew this rhythm. “I can do all things through Christ, which strengthened me” (Philippians 4:13). Not through yesterday’s strength, not through last week’s reserves — but through Christ, who is the same on Monday as He is on the Lord’s Day. His grace is not a Sunday commodity. It is daily bread.
Ordinary Days, Sacred Ground
One of the great lies the world tells us is that only certain days are sacred — only the grand moments, the high occasions, the Sunday services. But the Puritan fathers understood something gloriously different. They believed the entirety of life, when lived unto God, is holy. As Spurgeon himself put it, “The shop, the barn, the kitchen, and the workbench become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God.”
Your Monday, dear friend, is holy ground. The kitchen where you make breakfast for your children — holy ground. The drive to work, the conversation with a neighbor, the honest labor of your hands — holy ground. God is not absent from your ordinary week. He inhabits it. He fills it. He governs it with sovereign care.
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians, “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men” (Colossians 3:23). This was written not for ministers alone, but for servants, for tradesmen, for mothers and fathers and children — for all who bear the name of Christ in the common flow of life. Every Monday, task done heartily unto the Lord is an act of worship as real as any sung in the assembly.
He Made This Day
Return once more to the text: “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24).
The Psalmist does not say, “This is a pleasant day,” or “This is an easy day.” He says it is a day the Lord has made. Crafted. Appointed. Purposed. This Monday was not an accident. It did not escape God’s notice or slip past His sovereign hand. He made it — and He made it for you, for His glory, for your growth, for the good of those around you.
Therefore, rejoice. Not because Monday is easy, but because the God who made it is good. Not because the week ahead is light, but because the One who walks through it with you is strong. The joy here is not a feeling worked up by the flesh — it is a settled confidence of the soul that says, “My God is in this day, and therefore I will not fear it.”
Go Into the Week Looking Up
Beloved, lift your eyes. The week that lies before you is not a wilderness to be survived — it is a stewardship to be lived. Every conversation is an opportunity for grace. Every trial is an instrument of sanctification. Every mercy that meets you on the road — and there will be many — is a tender reminder that your Father’s eye is upon you.
Look into the right Face first.
Go to Him before you go to the world. Let the Throne Room be your first appointment this Monday morning, and all other appointments will fall into their proper order.
“The LORD’S mercies… are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22–23).
New this morning. New this Monday. New for you.
Go, and rejoice in it.
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— Your Pastor
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