A Day Made By God

September 29

(Psalm 118:24-25 NIV) “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. {25} O Lord, save us; O Lord, grant us success.”

(Matthew 6:25-34 NIV) ""Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? {26} Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? {27} Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? {28} "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. {29} Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. {30} If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? {31} So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' {32} For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. {33} But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. {34} Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

We hear a lot about “living in the moment”. It’s a great little slogan, but it’s really hard to do. We live in a culture that constantly tells us, “What you have today is insufficient.” How can we rejoice in today when we do not yet possess all that we deserve? There’s a better car, a better house, a better cologne, a better deal somewhere out there, and we simply cannot be happy unless we have it. And so contentment becomes the elusive butterfly of life, and joy is delayed until we obtain all that we “need”. Maybe tomorrow we will obtain it. Maybe then we can praise God for His goodness… maybe tomorrow. But when tomorrow comes, we’re anxious about the day after tomorrow. We can never seem to catch up with our angst. Jesus says there is a better way. Rejoice in today and tomorrow will take care of itself. Treasure Him today and the other stuff of life will fall in place. -- Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day