Today

"Today is the day of salvation."

"Give us this day our daily bread."

"Choose you this day whom you will serve."

"Take up your cross daily and follow me."

"Each day has enough trouble of its own."
"Call upon Me in the day of trouble. I shall rescue you, and you will honor me."

"So teach us to number our days that we may present to you a heart of wisdom."

This day is your life. Not yesterday--it's gone. Don't try to live there. Not tomorrow--it is not here, nor is it even promised. No, this day is your life. How will you spend it? Trusting in Him for the provision of this day; thankful for its abundant supply? Making choices that you know will serve His purposes in the kingdom? Embracing the cross He has lovingly given you to bear so that you might know Him more deeply who willingly suffered for you? Learning that He is willing and eager to help you bear it with an infusion of His cross-bearing joyful strength? In humility calling out to Him knowing that it honors His love to do so?

To not so "number your days" is to live a fool's life--to be a practical atheist denying by your festering in yesterdays heartaches and failures and in tomorrows worries and fears that He is Lord of Lord, King of Kings. and Lord and King of love. You are not an afterthought in His plans for today. You are His beloved child--the adored child of the perfect Father.

"This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." Anything else is disobedience. And disobedience is a lack of love for Him. And the idolatry of self-worship.

This day is your life. Have you dedicated it to Him, surrendered it to His wisdom and love? Do you trust Him? Do you believe He is good with all your heart? Then, live it in such a way that all will know that this is your life, a gift from Him, and committed with thanksgiving to His will.