A new day!

“This is the day the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 NLT)

A fresh start every morning!

 When you get up to face the day each morning, it’s brand new and full of possibilities! What you do there is up to you and your attitude. You can say, “Good lord, it’s morning!” which is totally negative! Or you can turn it around and say the same words correctly and enthusiastically: “Good morning, Lord!” What a difference! But it’s the right thing to do and will determine how your day will go. The passage at top is a command stating a fact and what you should do: “This is the day the LORD has made.” That is a fact; God did make this day, as He did all the other days. You have a brand new twenty-four-hour period, 1440 minutes, or 86,400 seconds, to fill up with whatever you want. After that, it’s gone forever, and you can never get it back. So, it’s very important to start it out right from the get-go. And the good news is, God tells you exactly how to do it: “Rejoice and be glad in it!”

Do not be anxious about tomorrow

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matt. 6:34 ESV)

“Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” (James 4:13-15 ESV)

Remember

“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” (Psalm 84:11 ESV)

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Heb.13:8 ESV)

Therefore

“Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.” (Psalm 143:8 ESV)

“But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” (Heb. 3:13 ESV)

“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.” (Psalm 68:19 KJV)