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A Fresh New Day
Read:
Philippians 3:10-16
By
the grace of God, you are reading this because God has given you another day. Some
of the same ingredients that went into yesterday may also be successfully
today, but one must be careful to not include yesterday itself as an ingredient
for today.
Yesterday
may have had its joys and its disappointments, its gains and its losses, its
successes and its failures, but today is its own day.
The
successes of yesterday will not do for today; today must have its own successes.
Successes, gains, and joys of prior days may be remembered and useful for
inspiration, but we cannot rest on yesterday's productions.
We
must aspire and labor to produce worthy products for today. We may even
discover, in time to come that today's outcomes may be of some use to inspire
us in some of our tomorrows though, of course, they should not be used to replace
them.
In
similar fashion, we may learn from yesterday's mistakes and negative outcomes.
Just as we are to not worry about the possible problems of tomorrow, so should
we resist inserting yesterday's evils into our today.
"Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof " (Matthew 6:34c).
The
forces of evil will be working to sidetrack and derail us enough without our
helping them by throwing some of yesterday's bad ingredients into today's
recipe.
Let
us avail ourselves of the power of God by faith and
"be strong in the Lord and in the power
of His might" (Ephesians 6:10).
Let
us put on the whole armor of God that we may be able to stand
against
the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6 : I 1 ).
Remember:
"Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4b).
"Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4b).
Thank
God for a fresh new day!
Dr. Roger A. Milot, Pastor,
Harvest Baptist Church, Hudson, FL
Today's
Through the Bible Reading
Exodus
27,28 ; Matthew 2 1 :23 - 4 6