I love the early morning hours. My favorite is that time right before dawn, you know the one that seems to be etheral, with the sun just starting to make it's debut on the horizon. It's different than a sunset, there is something hopeful in the new day.
Psalm 118:24 says in the New Living Translation; "This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it." I like that! We will rejoice and be glad in it! There is hope in that Scripture, plus there is a command in it as well. Regardless of what the day holds for us, we will rejoice, and we will be glad in it.
No matter what the day holds, and we never know do we? We might go sailing with some friends, we might be at the hospital with our family or we might just sit on our porch enjoying coffee with our neighbor, we really don't know. But whatever our day is; good, bad or indifferent we are commanded to rejoice and be glad.
One of the many things that I love about God is that He never tells us to do something that we are unable to do. If He tells us to rejoice and be glad, then He expects that that is something that we really can accomplish. John Eldredge wrote in his blog this week, this statement: "And so Doubt, masquerading as humility, has become a virtue." We are too quick to doubt in our lives I think. If God said it, then we "CAN" believe it.
If we are a believer in Christ, then that's what we do...WE BELIEVE...the enemy wants us to lay aside those things that God promises, by dismissing them. We cannot do that, we must hear what God says, and then do that. That's why the rising of the sun brings me such hope, because I get another day to walk out what God has for me.
So remember, this is the day the Lord has made. we get to rejoice and be glad in it! Strength and honor for the Kingdom and the King!
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