Today

Psalms 118:24 This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

We face a different time in our life, but we’re going to live it a day at a time. The Bible teaches us to live day by day, when we allow a God-given day to be a God-governed day, then it will be a day we can rejoice. “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”

God Provides the Day

We need to see that every day we have is a provided day. It is a day that God has given us. God has provided this day. We need to see our days as gifts from God. Every day God gives us a brand-new day, and it is a gift. God made this day, and that tells us that God is the creator of time. And God has given you today time to live, time to love, time to learn, time to laugh, time to work, time to pray, time to share. God has given you time. But it’s up to you how you use it.

Lamentations says, “It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” (Lamentations 3:22–23) Every morning God gives us a brand-new day, and rather than waking up and turning over and looking at the alarm clock and saying, “Good Lord, it’s morning,” we ought to say, “Good morning, Lord. Thank you for this brand-new, glorious, wonderful day that you’ve given me.” We ought to take each day as a gift from God and realize that we have a tremendous responsibility not for just any day, but for this particular day.
One day we’re going to have to account for this day.

Today is a Present Day

This is the day, not, will be the day, not was the day, but, “This is the day.” There is a great failure with many Christians concerning this. They fail to live today, because they’re either worrying about tomorrow, or regretting yesterday, and they fail to live today. There are two days that will take the joy out of today; one is yesterday,
and the other is tomorrow.

God Gave Us Today We Must Refuse to Live in Yesterday

We ought to refuse to live in yesterday. The Apostle Paul said in Philippians the third chapter dealt with this idea. He said, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind.” (Philippians 3:13) Have you done that, or are you living in the past?
Paul refused to live in the past.

God Gave Us Today We Must Refuse to Live in Tomorrow

We can’t do justice to today if we try to live today by thinking about tomorrow. Remember what Jesus said, “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Matthew 6:34)

To many people, Christians also, ruin today by worrying about tomorrow. Worry is a great sin. Jesus said it is acting like a heathen; it’s acting like a pagan. Jesus said, “This is the way the pagans act.
They act as though God is dead.” (Matthew 6:32)

When you worry about tomorrow, that doesn’t get you ready for tomorrow. All your worrying about tomorrow does is take your strength today by fighting imaginary foes. And then when tomorrow gets here, you don’t have any strength to fight tomorrow’s battles, because you used up your strength today fighting imaginary foes. When you get to tomorrow, then you have strength for tomorrow. You will have trouble and God will use that trouble to help you depend on Him.

“As thy days, so shall thy strength be.” (Deuteronomy 33:25) God gives strength for today. And worry does not take the sorrow out of tomorrow; all it does is take the strength out of today.

God Gave Us A Precious Day

We need to learn to value time, because “this is day which the LORD hath made.” Time is the stuff that life is made out of. The art of living is really being able to spend time wisely. That’s the reason the Bible says in Psalms, “Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” (Psalms 90:12)

God Gives Us a Day

Maybe We Should Begin it With Him

To realize the preciousness of the day, it might help if we start it with Him. We must spend enough time with God to get a clear sense of His direction. It is not waste of time when you wait on God. You see, the important thing is to find out what God wants you to do, not what duties you have impressed upon yourself, or other people have imposed upon you.

If God made this day, and God knows what He wants us to do in this day, then it is incumbent upon us to get alone with God, listen to God, and let God speak to us.

We Must Maximize The Day God Gives

Procrastination is really a sin. “Therefore, to him that knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin, is that not procrastination. (James 4:17) Obedience is the opposite, it is instant, or it is not truly obedience.

Today is a Passing Day

This day is passing away, every day passes away. Jesus said, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.” (John 9:4) This day is fast passing away, what you intend to do for God, you’d better get with it.
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked, time walked.
When I became a full grown man, time ran.
And later, as I older grew, time flew.
Soon I shall find while travelling on, time gone. HENRY TWELLS

Whatever you intend to do, you might as well get started, because you’re not getting any younger. Time is passing.

Today is a Providential Day

It is a day that has come from the hand of God. And, therefore, everything that happens to me in this day is by the providence of God. Have you ever wondered how the psalmist could say, “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it”?

We know that many times sorrows come our way, but we need to see the providence of God in every day; no matter what happens, to see that God’s providence rules over it. The secret of joy is to see the providence of God in everything and rejoice in everything.

You see, happiness, really, is a choice: you can choose to rejoice, or you can refuse to rejoice. If you are committed to Christ and one of His, nothing comes to you but what some how He allows and it comes through Him first. “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:18)

Listen again to Ephesians, “Giving thanks always for all things …” (Ephesians 5:20) It means that you take everything in this day that God has given and you write Romans 8:28 over it all: “And we know that all things work together for good them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
(Romans 8:28)