Got The Summer-Time "Blahs"?

How does it happen that all winter long, we wait for summer, and then when summer comes, we suddenly find ourselves wrung out, done out, sort of numb and hung-out?

Could it be because we’re looking too much at our world, and not enough at God’s? Our world is tiring, boring, sometimes meaningless and so we get the “blahs”…those ugly, troublesome “blues” that are called “blahs”!

But take a look at God’s world, and we hear the Psalmist saying, “The heavens are telling the glory of God….the law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul…the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart…More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold.” (from Ps. 19) On and on the writer goes, suggesting that if we get hung up on ourselves, it is fatal, but if we take a look at God’s world, it is like tonic for our souls, like treasure to our spiritual pocketbooks, like life for our summer-shriveled spirits.

There’s no cure like the prescription of the Great Physician: take one or two doses of Bible study and worship each week. Attend church, where the summertime “blahs” become acts of praise, and depression turns to a resounding “Amen”.