Only Today

Take a moment to read the following words. Don’t just breeze through them. Take time for them and stay a while. Here they are:

“Each morning we are born again. What we do today matters most.”

Do you need to read them again? I found myself staring at those twelve words the other day. Not that I had not read them before, but for some unknown reason they became the focus of my attention. As a Christian I know about the phrase, “Born Again.” To us it is a once and for all thing that happens when we turn our lives over to Jesus Christ and seek to live the Christian life. So, what about being born again every morning? Can it be so? I believe the first six words are true. Did Christ pay for my sin once for all and there was a moment in time where we are born again? Absolutely. But each day? Yes each day. But this is a different born again. We have a new birth when our eyes open, when we lift our head from the pillow and place our feet firmly on the floor. We have a new and wonderful chance to make a fresh new start. An opportunity if you will to have a prefect day.
Then I understood the last six words. Today is the only thing that matters as it lives and breathes from the first six words. As more people then enough have said, yesterday is gone. Chad & Jeremy had one take on it and so did Fleetwood Mac. Remember yesterday but never live in the regrets of the past while we embrace our today. And then we know our future is unknown. Tomorrow is a vision of the future that we plan for but as the song says, tomorrow never comes.
In our Christian walk only today is important. Way back in Bible College a mature, caring professor started the year off with one phrase. Now forty years later I remember it as if he had said it yesterday. He told this young, full of energy class, “Make the most of your every day!” Not great English but great advice. He had us write it down. We were young and impressionable, looking to learn and then to move on in life. After all we had plans. Great, pie in the sky plans for the future and how we will change the world. By the way, we didn’t, maybe a little, but not like we planned.
The first page of notes that year had those words scribbled at the top. We were written in a hurry while we waited to hear more. But we all needed to go back to them over and over. And now, I go over them every day.
Make the best of today. Live it as if you are planning for the future but recognizing that today may be your last. God doesn’t want your yesterday, even though I believe He lives outside of time. He needs us today, and just today. I want all of us to change today. Change in a way that you make the best of your day and begin with a new birth and a new outlook. Today Will Be The Day! Just remember, how you spend your day tells the world where your heart is.
Have a great day, and spend it wisely.
Something to think about
Rob