This Is the Day #RTTBROS #Nightlight

This Is the Day #RTTBROS #Nightlight

"This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." — Psalm 118:24

You know, I was humming a little song this morning that I first learned in children's church, probably six decades ago. Maybe you know it too. "This is the day, this is the day, that the Lord hath made, that the Lord hath made. We will rejoice, we will rejoice, and be glad in it..." I caught myself singing it almost before I was fully awake, and I thought, now isn't that something. Here I am, all these years later, and that little song is still doing its work on my soul.

That simple round was written by Les Garrett, a New Zealand worship leader, back in 1967. He wasn't writing for Carnegie Hall or a great cathedral choir. He was writing something children could sing, something simple enough to wrap a young heart around. And yet that little melody has been circling the globe ever since, showing up in hymnals and children's programs and, apparently, in the early mornings of old preachers who need to be reminded of something important.

Because here's what Psalm 118:24 is actually doing. It isn't a gentle suggestion. It's a declaration. "This is the day which the LORD hath made." Not tomorrow, not the day things get easier, not the day the bills get paid or the diagnosis comes back clean. This day. The one you woke up to this morning, with all its uncertainty and its ordinary Tuesday-ness. God made this day on purpose, and He handed it to you.

The Psalm was written in a context of real deliverance. The writer had been through the fire, through rejection, through the kind of circumstances where it would have been very easy to greet the morning with dread instead of praise. And yet, right in the middle of all of that, he plants a flag and says, "We will rejoice and be glad in it." That "we will" is a choice, not a feeling.

I'm too soon old and too late smart on this one, but I've learned that some of the most powerful spiritual habits are the ones we learned when we were small. That little round I learned in children's church wasn't just a song. It was a posture of the heart being built into me before I even knew I needed it.

So let me ask you this morning, what are you doing with the day God handed you today? It is His gift. It won't come around again. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Let's pray. Lord, thank You for this day, this specific, unrepeatable day that You made and gave to us. Help us not to sleepwalk through it or spend it dreading tomorrow. Teach us to receive it as the gift it is, and to rejoice, genuinely rejoice, in it. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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