Make the choice

 

Psalm 118:24 ESV

This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Some days are harder than others, but we have to make the choice to rejoice.  We have to make the choice to realize that it is another day that the Lord has gifted to us.  Another chance to get it right. We have to make the choice to celebrate God and rejoice.

A friend of mine passed away a week ago today.  Every morning I wake up the with realization that he is no longer with us.  The same way that others who have gone to soon are now with us.  So to be alive and breathing is a gift.  It's not something promised, but granted through the graciousness of God.  So for that I choose to say thank You.  I choose to smile when I would rather frown.  I choose patience over irritability.  I choose God.

I choose to think about His goodness and faithfulness.  I choose to think about all the many ways He blesses me.  The ways that He shows me that He is near and I rejoice.  I am glad to be in this day under His will and again I say thank You.

Lord, thank You for granting me another day.  Another day to choose gratitude, to choose You.  I thank You for all the ways that You bless me and my fellow brothers and sisters in this day.  I rejoice and sing praises unto Your name.  Forgive me for those times when I take my days for granted  and nurse my pride instead.  Thank You for Your grace and thank You for Your mercy.  In Jesus name.  Amen