“This is the LORD’s doing, and it is
wonderful to see. This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be
glad in it” (Psalm 118:23-24, NLT).
As we begin our days, what aspects will determine our attitude for the
day and either make this time period, a
good day or one that is simply tolerated? As we look ahead to the coming day,
how do we approach it? Do we jump into the day with excitement or wish we go
back around the corner because dread is draped across all facets of the day
ahead. If the morning breaks bright and
sunny… one might proclaim, “It is going to be a great day.” If the sun is not
shining and grayness seems to settle over all the start of the day with a
impending heaviness … one might lament, “This is going to be a great day” in
utter disgust and irony. It is easy on some days to be swallowed up by the
anticipated pressures and problems we imagine looming in the hours before us
and give up on the day before it has hardly begun. Some people are just morning people and they
bounce out of bed with optimism. Other
people take longer to get going and need a large cup of a certain dark aromatic
beverage to even begin to contemplate their day.
Sometimes a day which begun so full of promise, slowly descends into an
endless array of negative adjectives such as lousy, awful, brutal, atrocious,
horrid, ghastly and hideous. We might say, "It was just a bad day."
Was it really? Did we not have a day … a
day of life? We had a day of knowing God
and His gifts, of family and friends, food and delights, sights and sounds, joy
and laughter and countless new insights and experiences midst any and all of
the negatives of that day. We cannot know the events of the day, nor the
difficulties or whether the outcome will be better or less than expected. We cannot control the number of our days nor
can we know if we will even wake tomorrow to a new day but we have this day as
a gift from God.
In reality, none of our days are
really just our days. Each day is a gift
of grace from God. We have been given a
Savior and He redeems all of our days, if we let have our days. Each day is a gift as it begins and it
unfolds as a gift ever surprising with more understanding and love if we look
to Him in every facet of the day.
Whether we are happy with the gift of each day reflects not on quality
of the gift but simply on our gratitude in having another day of grace to live
out and another day to share with others.
His love covers the gift of each day and His grace is sufficient for
every hour of everyday. Be filled with gratitude for each day you are given ...
rejoice and be glad in it.
Suggested Bible Reading … Psalm 118
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