The Day

If you are a believer, you probably know that every day is a gift from God.  I think we all would acknowledge that fact.  So what is the first thing we ought to do when we wake up each day?  Well I am not sure what you do, but I try to just lie there and praise the Lord before I do anything else because He is worthy no matter how I feel, and believe me sometimes before I get up I am not the happiest person on the planet, maybe you can relate.  But regardless of how we feel it doesn’t change the way the Lord feels about us because He never wakes up grouchy like we do and He is always the same, He does not change and He is always holy and worthy of our praise!!  He actually inhabits all our praise!!  

As far as I know the Lord never sleeps and He is always watching over us, but that doesn’t mean that He never allows things to happen to us that we may not agree with, but He knows what is best for us.  Read what His Word says in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”  Even when we don’t understand everything that takes place in our lives we can know that the Lord is with us and not against us.  And remember this, because the Lord has made everyone in His image and likeness and given us all a free will we don’t always make the right choices.  Some of the choices that are made are very destructive and devastating and affect more people than ourselves, so because of the consequences, things happen that we will never understand. But the Lord does and He says in His Word vengeance is mine saith the Lord I shall repay!!  The Word also says that a man will reap what he sows.  

Read what it says in Psalms 34:12-23, “Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves such as have a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He guards all his bones; not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned. The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.”

These are some very encouraging words and we should fill our minds with these things.  So no matter where we are in our walk with the Lord we should be praising Him and thanking Him first thing in the morning and every day!!

Read what the Lord’s Word says in Psalms 118:24, “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”

Then read this in Philippians 4:4-8, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.”

Enough said, I hope this has been an encouragement to you.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super, super day!