A NEW DAY

A NEW DAY

Walking leisurely in the hallway to my office a friend met me and commented that it looked like I had no important business to keep. I said I’m getting along in years so I could no longer keep up with all the hurrying and trotting.

A more laid back approach might be slow, or thought to be inept, but it gives my nerves the needed slack.

In this world system, we devour the day with ferocity.

As the new day dawns like beating drums people move in rapid cadence plunging hard and fast hoping to accomplish things which seem very important, but likely to pass on to insignificance, in the inevitable passage of time.

And so what better way to welcome the coming of each new morning of the day than to praise the God of all creation for making us see another light of day.

The Psalmist of old, declared: “This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24)

I think man should learn from the lesser creatures like the birds and the fowl. Each new morning they break the silence of the dawn by their cheery chirping and crowing, praising their Creator. Unlike the modern man, they don’t wake up to race against time and against each other, by their endless hurrying and speeding. They rise welcoming the new day making joyful sounds of praise.     

Bible Teacher Woodrow  Kroll, aptly described this joyful sacrifice of praise.

He wrote:

“With every new morning nature offers a tribute of praise to God's mercy. The sun rises; the birds sing; the trees sway in the breeze. Shall we alone be silent and ungrateful? Shall the Christian, who has the most reasons to praise God for His mercy, be slow to acknowledge that God's mercy is renewed to him each day? Will we allow the natural creation of God alone to praise its Creator?

No matter how dark our day may appear to be, let us remember this with Jeremiah, ‘It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness’ (Lamentations 3:22-23)”.

My friend, why don’t you pause for a moment, and think of the fact that you have awakened to another day, and thank God, in His mercy,  for giving you another lease on life, before racing against life itself.

God Bless you.