Monday, September 24, 2007

start by looking up

Each day is a fresh opportunity to make any one of millions of choices.  We have tremendous freedom to decide.  We can just let routine carry us, like a dy stick floating in a river current.  We can allow any one of hundreds of fears and uncertainties grip us and paralyzed us.  We can connive and scheme to try to make circumstances fit our self-concocted dreams.  In a sense it all starts in our mind.  Or we can start by setting our mind on the mind of the Lord.  He actually is the one who manufactures each day.  why don't we just look up!  Psalm 118 tells us in verse 24 "This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it."  What if we brought a sense of discovery to the day, with the expectation that, like a beautifully wrapped gift, something special and something planned by our Lord is contained in the next 24 hours.  Our challenge will be to unwrap the gift and find the Lord in the new day.  In a way, each day is a new creation and a fresh chance to renew our personal walk with the God who knows us by name.  We can ask the Lord, like the writer also does in Psalm 118, verse 19 "Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them,  And I will praise the LORD."
 
blessings,
Rob Smith

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