Happy New Day!
No, I didn’t make a mistake in my title. Yes, I know most people are going around saying “happy new year.” Everyone seems to be making their new year’s resolutions once again pharmacom for the year 2020. It seems like a good and logical thing to do. Maybe you plan to lose weight or exercise more. Possibly your resolution involves becoming more spiritually-minded and studying the Bible every day, perhaps even reading it through this year.
All of those things are good to think about and try to implement in your life, but who said you would have a whole year? Didn’t Jesus Himself say, “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)?
In Luke 12:13-21, Jesus tells the parable of the rich fool. This man had land that produced a lot of crops…so many crops that he couldn’t store all of them. So, he made a plan to tear down his barns and build bigger barns to store all of his grain and goods. He then said to himself, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, and be merry.” We all know that God called him a fool, and told him that he would be gone that very night! The lesson ends in verse 21 when Jesus says, “So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
Are you like me? Do you get caught up in all of the activities and responsibilities that are on your calendar, and fail to see what is around you on any given day? Sometimes when I open my calendar to a particular month and see all of the squares filled in with something I have to do on those particular days, I feel like I just can’t get it all done. What I fail to see is that the time I have on that particular day is all I really need to deal with.
I hope no one thinks I am saying we should just let time pass us by and give no thought to the future, because that isn’t it at all. But I am saying that we need to see each new day that God gives us as an opportunity in itself. I can fill it with good and necessary activities for Him, or I can waste it on things of this world that will not really matter in eternity. I can spend it taking care of my family and our home, or I can waste it sitting and mindlessly watching some screen. I can spend it showing a “Christ-like” example to all with whom I come in contact, or I can waste it by ignoring those around me.
In the model prayer found in Matthew 6, Jesus said, “Give us this day, our daily bread…” That statement comforts me and leads me to recognize the importance of each day that we are given by God.
I guess what I’m trying to say is what I hope my resolve is for this next year. I plan to try with all of my being to take one day at a time and live it to the best of my ability for the Lord. So, from me to each one of you, “Happy New Day.”
“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring’ (Prov. 27:1)
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AUTHOR: Donna Faughn
