Some of you are taking finals. Some of you are experiencing the slowest and worst countdown to summer break ever. Some of you are out of school and just realized there are no more summer breaks. And to top it all off, it has been quite a while since you were at an iGo Base Camp.

So here is some good medicine for this Monday in May. Bottom Line medicine to be exact. The bottom line is the truth that everything is ultimately for God’s glory. But that doesn’t happen in remote parts of the cosmos independent from us. Instead, God works out and reveals His glory through us and in our circumstances. He gets all the glory and we gain benefits for the journey along the way.

So let these bottom line reminders (complete with top line blessings) be good medicine for your soul today.

For you are my rock and my fortress;
and for your name’s sake you lead me and guide me; (emphasis added) – Psalm 31:3

How is your stress level today? Anxiety creeping higher and higher? Could you use some guidance? He will be your unshakeable rock and fortress. He will put you on the right path. And that will be good for you, and that will demonstrate His greatness.

“I, I am he  who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
  and I will not remember your sins. (emphasis added) – Isaiah 43:25

Did you completely mess up recently? Maybe last month? Maybe sometime this past year? Maybe yesterday? B/c of the completed work of Christ, God chooses to not remember your sins. For your joy for sure, but ultimately for His name’s sake. It shows the world how gracious, loving, kind, and slow to anger He really is. Embrace that and walk in that today.

“Be still, and know that I am God.
  I will be exalted among the nations,
  I will be exalted in the earth!” – Psalm 46:10

You can be still this week knowing that He is God. He is in control. Even when things seem to be out of control in Baltimore or Garland or Nepal, they are ultimately not. God will be exalted in every nation and in all the earth. Mark it down. It will happen. And rest in that truth this week.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.  – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Could you use some comfort today? You won’t find anything or anyone more comforting that your heavenly Father. God is truly the God of all comfort and He will flood your soul with comfort. But the truth of the bottom line reminds us that He doesn’t do that for you as an end of His blessing. He does that for you to make you a conduit of His blessing. He comforts you, and then He uses you to comfort others. The top line always leads to the bottom line.

So here is the bottom line question, “Who around you needs some comfort?” Pick up the phone, shoot out an email, stop by for a visit. Bring the bottom line to someone who needs the medicine just as much as you.