As For Today

September 7th-8th,

This day will take place once.

   When you record what happens each and every day you come to realize one beautiful, inescapable fact, each day can is beautifully unique, eternal in the making, and quick to pass. We become so occupied by planning our lives we forget to live them.  We will sooner spend days planning a vacation for the family than spend an hour with our kids each night.  In the process of trying to fill we become impossible to fulfill and in the process of trying to fulfill we are never filled.  Living within each day, consciously giving it your best, is a wonderful way too live.  I mean not to say living for the day because the day is for us, not us for the day.  We are designed to live focused one day at a time.  Psalms   puts it in this way:  Psalm 118:24 This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.  Sure God made years that are great too, years made out of months, months made out of weeks, and weeks made out of.... days.  Our live's are literally too stressful to live even two days at a time, much less weeks at a time.  We are worry consumed creatures, burdened with the self-appointed weight of responsibility to try and make ourselves content with our lives.  Our attempts at planning a fulfilling life usually either changes nothing or sometimes makes it worse.  Some may say that without such planning our lives would fall apart and they would be miserable but are you really preparing or are you stressing?   How much worrying will finally fix all our problems?  Matthew 6:27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to his life?  There's something much bigger at stake here; our faith is portrayed through this lifestyle of daily dependance on God, hence why the lord's prayer says "give us this day our daily bread", not this week or this month, but this one, individual day.  We truly rely on God each and every day, we can neither live nor afford to live any other way.  What's at stake here is our faith;  do we trust Christ enough to lay down our schedules, our elaborate plans and say "Lord, I'm going to live this day, to honor you. Give me the strength to go on"?  A man who touched Christ, saw him, knew him, and heard him wanted us to hear this clear message: Matthew 6:31-34  So do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it's own.
We have been forgiven for our pasts, we do not need to carry the burden of our past nor our future, only that of which we are shouldered with each day.   If you're trying to build a future you wont regret than live a day you will remember.