This Is the Day

This Is the Day

“This is the day which the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Ps. 118:24. Each day is a rich and precious gift from God, with new grace and new opportunities. Jesus says that we have only this one day, and we must not be anxious for the day tomorrow. Even though it has gone badly before, it can be completely new and glorious today. If there is something that bothers our conscience from the past, we have abundant grace and power to bring it in order today.

Let us, as the Word says, be glad and rejoice over each day. It is the Lord who has made it and planned it for us. He is faithful and takes care that today we will not be tempted and tried beyond our ability to bear. He will make the temptation and the way of escape so that we can bear it. 1 Cor. 10:13. We also know that today all things will work together for our good. Rom. 8:28. Today the good works are being prepared for us, and we will have abundant grace and strength to walk in them. Eph. 2:10.

We must learn to number our days and live as if each day were our last. Today the husband can love his wife and not be bitter toward her, and the wife can be in subjection to her husband with joy. It is good to think like this: Today could be the only day, the last day we have, to show all goodness and love to each other. Today we are to glorify Jesus’ name in everything we say and do and let the sun of our love rise over the evil and the good.

It is today that we shall endure, suffer, and bear everything with joy, fully believing that God weighs our trials. If the evil day should come, we will then have an inner power of resistance to overcome and to stand. Today we shall be bold and not lose courage, but rather look to the things that are not seen, because then our tribulations will be light and temporary and will work for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 2 Cor. 4:16-18.

“For this commandment which I command you today, it is not too mysterious for you, nor is it far off.” Deut. 30:11. “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it. See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.” Vs. 14-16.

Today I choose between life and good and death and evil by either receiving or rejecting the laws of the Spirit of life written in my heart. “Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: ‘Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts . . . .’” Heb. 3:7-8.

The decisions we make today are crucial for eternity! Jesus will come to fetch those who are waiting for Him today and are ready to meet Him. They are the children of light and of the day.

“Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth.” Hos. 6:3.

To be grumpy in the morning is far from having a life in God. David took the harp and the lute to awaken the dawn so that he could get started as early as possible with singing to the Lord and praising Him among the nations. Ps. 57:8-9; 108:2-3.