\u2018\u2018This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.\u2019\u2019 (Psalm 118:24)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The greatest moment in your life is now. Not because it\u2019s pleasant or happy or easy, but because it\u2019s the only moment you\u2019ve got. Every past moment is irretrievably gone. It\u2019s never coming back. If you live there, you lose your life. And the future is always out there somewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can spend an eternity waiting for tomorrow or worrying about tomorrow. If you live there, you likewise will lose your life. This moment is God\u2019s irreplaceable gift to you. Most of all, this is the moment that matters because this is the moment where God is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you are going to be with God at all, you must be with Him now \u2013 in this moment. That is why the psalmist says: \u2018This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.\u2019 That is why the prophet Jeremiah said God\u2019s mercies never fail because \u2018they are new every morning\u2019 (Lamentations 3:23 NKJV). That is why the apostle Paul said, \u2018Be careful how you live\u2026Make the most of every opportunity\u2026Understand what the Lord wants you to do\u2019 (Ephesians 5:15-17 NLT). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frederick Buechner wrote, \u2018Morning, afternoon, evening \u2013 the hours of the day, of any day, of your day and my day. The alphabet of grace. If there is a God who speaks anywhere, surely he speaks here: through waking up and working, through going away and coming back again, through people you meet and books you read, through falling asleep in the dark.\u2019 All of this means one thing \u2013 the greatest moment in your life is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018\u2018This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.\u2019\u2019 (Psalm 118:24) The greatest moment in your life is now. Not because it\u2019s pleasant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-church","category-word-for-today"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}