"As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,and its place knows it no more." - Psalm 103:15-16I remember when I was little, people would always tell me that the older you became, the quicker time would seem to pass. I can testify that their words seem to have come true. So, when days seem to pass more quickly then I can grasp them...when two days ago are a distant memory and a month a time long past, it makes me see how precious the time we've been given is. Days not to be spent in worry, anger, selfishness, or laziness. They aren't to be days full of regret over things we can't change or have been forgiven for. They are to be beautiful days lived for God's glory. Days full of the grace that He has given to sustain us until the next rising of the sun, when His mercies are poured out anew. When I worry about tomorrow, I'm giving up today. When I think I can't make it through another trial, I have to remind myself that I have enough grace to make it until tomorrow. " Life does not come to us in lifetimes, it comes only one day at a time." So, though there are days I sometimes wish would just be over, I am all too aware that all my days that make up my lifetime will be at an end before I know it. Days are important to me...how I live my days is important to God. The following quote by Miller is one of the most beautiful and inspiring pieces I've ever read concerning the topic of "days". I hope it provokes you as much as it did me.
Just One Little Day by J.R.M.
"Give us today our daily bread." Matthew 6:11
One secret of sweet and happy Christian life—is in learning to LIVE BY THE DAY. It is the long stretches which tire us. We say that "we cannot carry this load until we are eighty—or that we cannot fight this battle continually for half a century." But really, there are no long stretches. Life does not come to us in lifetimes; it comes only a day at a time. Even tomorrow is never ours—until it becomes today; and we have nothing whatever to do with it—but to pass down to it a fair and good inheritance in today's work well done and today's life well lived. It is a blessed secret—this of living by the day. Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy—until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard—for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, quietly, patiently, lovingly, and purely—until the sun goes down. This is all the life which we really ever have—just one little day. God gives us nights to shut down the curtain of darkness on our little days. We cannot see beyond—and we ought not to try to see beyond. Short horizons make life easier, and give us one of the blessed secrets of noble, happy, holy living. We ought not to be content to live otherwise—than beautifully. We can live our life only once. We cannot go over life again—to correct its mistakes or amend its faults. We ought therefore to live it well. And to do this, we must make every day beautiful, as it passes. Lost days must always remain blanks in the records; and stained days must carry their stains. Beautiful days make beautiful years, and beautiful years make a beautiful life!"
One secret of sweet and happy Christian life—is in learning to LIVE BY THE DAY. It is the long stretches which tire us. We say that "we cannot carry this load until we are eighty—or that we cannot fight this battle continually for half a century." But really, there are no long stretches. Life does not come to us in lifetimes; it comes only a day at a time. Even tomorrow is never ours—until it becomes today; and we have nothing whatever to do with it—but to pass down to it a fair and good inheritance in today's work well done and today's life well lived. It is a blessed secret—this of living by the day. Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy—until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard—for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, quietly, patiently, lovingly, and purely—until the sun goes down. This is all the life which we really ever have—just one little day. God gives us nights to shut down the curtain of darkness on our little days. We cannot see beyond—and we ought not to try to see beyond. Short horizons make life easier, and give us one of the blessed secrets of noble, happy, holy living. We ought not to be content to live otherwise—than beautifully. We can live our life only once. We cannot go over life again—to correct its mistakes or amend its faults. We ought therefore to live it well. And to do this, we must make every day beautiful, as it passes. Lost days must always remain blanks in the records; and stained days must carry their stains. Beautiful days make beautiful years, and beautiful years make a beautiful life!"
As your days—so shall your strength be."-Deuteronomy 33:25
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