Each Day is God’s Day

Psalm 118:24 – That is the day the LORD has made; allow us to rejoice and be glad in it.

This previous weekend, the city I grew up in revived an outdated custom referred to as the Dandelion Pageant. Covid did a quantity to a number of occasions, together with this one. Nicely, this previous Saturday, the solar was shining, the dandelions had been in full bloom, household, pals, and the group got here out, to simply be collectively. Irrespective of the place you walked, individuals had been mingling, laughter crammed the air, and other people younger and outdated crammed the parking tons and streets.

As Mazy and I walked in the direction of the actions (fortunately they had been all outdoors!), I stored considering “this simply feels proper”. A childhood reminiscence coming to life as soon as once more. I may go with out the worry of getting sick, and I lastly didn’t should miss it, however may very well be inside it.

Daily is a brand new day. Daily is a day GOD has made. However doesn’t it typically really feel like our trials and struggles “make” our day? As a result of they appear to run our day? That’s how my thoughts now usually views a day. How do I hold preventing these ailments? How do I stop my physique from getting sick? How do I do what I can to realize power and well being, whereas nonetheless recovering? It feels all-consuming at instances. However my view of who God is and what He’s given me, is totally skewed.

I neglect to get up and say, “That is YOUR day God, do with it as you please.” And since this can be a day YOU created, I can rejoice and be glad in it. Relaxation in it. Be in it. Be grateful for it. Now after all it’s simple to be pleased about a day that simply feels proper – like going to the Dandelion Pageant. I wasn’t hooked as much as an IV, needing to worry getting sick (thanks hand sanitizer and for it being outdoors), or miss it as a result of I used to be within the hospital. I should appear like a most cancers affected person, however God is permitting a season of life, due to the altering seasons in his world, to benefit from the joys of life once more.

Via the previous 7 years, God has allowed some actually tough trials in our life. Days the place we’ve been given diagnoses which can be life-altering and have us questioning how way more, God? Circumstances which have separated our household for weeks on finish. However even in these days, IT IS STILL GOD’S DAY. It’s a day he created. It’s a day he allowed. So regardless of our circumstances, we will select to rejoice and be glad in it, or to let our circumstances overwhelm us and management us. I’ve realized how a lot I’ve allowed the latter.

I keep in mind saying in a earlier put up, I need to get pleasure from life, not simply endure it. I need to go from surviving to thriving once more. I can’t management what God permits with my circumstances, however I can management my reactions to them. I can select to say, “That is the day the Lord has made, allow us to rejoice and be glad in it.”

What trial are you strolling with at present? Once you get up within the morning, what’s your response? Is it a “right here we go once more”, or “that is God’s day, what do you’ve gotten for me?” I’m usually a “right here we go once more”…however I don’t need to reside like that anymore. I need to rejoice in what God is doing in and thru my life, as we stroll by these trials. Do you’re feeling like you might be simply enduring or having fun with life? Simply surviving our thriving? God woke you up this morning in order that we may reside at the present time for him. That’s how we will rejoice and be glad in it!

Let’s step out of the bondage of our trials, into the liberty God so graciously offers us every day, to say, “That is the day the Lord has made, allow us to rejoice and be glad in it.”