Monday, June 04, 2012

God's Day

This is the day the Lord has made. We shall be glad and rejoice in it. We hear that verse a lot, but do we realize that every day is the Lord's day? To realize fully that each and every day now belong to God is especially important on a Monday. It is just before 0600 out here on the hot plains of Nebraska, and I am just now thinking that today is a good day to thank the Lord for the day that He has given to me. Did our dear friend make it out of the hospital yesterday, or does she linger yet today under the gentle care of the needle stickers? One knows that we are to expect thorns in this life because of the curse, but doctors and nurses take that to new levels. "Ve needs more blood from you!" the vampire in the pastel uniform lisps and approaches the bed one more time. Remember that this too is the Lord's day. You will rejoice and be glad in it as the lab technician holds you down to drain all your precious corpuscles one more time.

Laughing are we? You too, yes, you in the pink jammies getting ready to get ready for work. Yes, this is the Lord's day! What do you mean, you don't feel like rejoicing? Wow, that sun gets hot early in the morning. I think I'll rejoice by closing the blind. Did I rejoice while rinsing out the cat litter boxes this morning? Hmm, may have slipped my mind at the time. Rejoicing in every moment is difficult, but the verse does not demand that we rejoice in everything that we must do in this life. Philippians does tell us to rejoice in the Lord always. Rejoice always? No, rejoice in the Lord always. Not, 'rejoice while scrubbing litter boxes always' or 'rejoice while going back to that dreadful workplace always', but rejoice in the Lord always. We may not rejoice in every circumstance, but we learn to rejoice in every day. This day is the Lord's day that He has granted to each of us. One day, we may get only a partial day, and then it will be time to go home. And what a day of rejoicing that will be!

Bucky

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