This is the Day

   I woke up this morning with several things on my mind. Plans for the day, questions about future plans, possibilities of how to do what today. all filled my mind. Then a little ditty came to mind that we used to sing with our kids "This is the day that the Lord hath made, I will rejoice and be glad in it".

   Then I read Chambers' reading for today taken from Isaiah 53 about Jesus being the suffering servant, afflicted and acquainted with grief, and I wonder how these two ideas come together for me today.

   Jesus, who willingly gave up his throne in heaven, put aside his Godly power and descended, both literally and figuratively, to earth, taking the form of a man, just so He could become a sin sacrifice for me. My mind can't even comprehend the whys and wherefores of what this entailed. I can only sit here and breath a "thank you" prayer.

   So if this is truly the day that the Lord has made and my responsibility is to rejoice and be glad in it, how then do I live it out today? I do not know the situations and people that will intersect with my path today, so how do I prepare?

   Perhaps the best way will be to keep this ditty going around and around in my brain and truly rejoice and be glad.

   Oh God, let me live a life of true gratitude today, because of what You have done for me. Let others see Jesus in me today.