A Day With Purpose

Every day is a different day.  There are times when we are tempted to say that the day just brings around "the same old same old," but, of course, it is never true.  Even as a thousand pine trees planted in neat orderly rows look all alike to the casual observer, so might the present day seem like a calendar of days which have already come and gone.  As surely as close examination reveals that no two trees are alike, so it is with the days which have been given to us.    T

Those often quoted words from Ecclesiastes tell us this as they say, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven."  (Ecclesiastes 3:1)  And while the next seven verses of that section of Scripture list a number of different times which are common to the human experience, it is by no means an all inclusive list.  Every day is given for a reason.  There is within it a purpose to fulfill.  We may not think of the passing of each day in such terms, but it is surely true that what God gives and provides, He does so for a reason.   Our problem in seeing this reality and embracing it may be a reflection of our tendency to think in the grandiose.  

There are times when it seems that one of the most important things to be accomplished in a day is to take the phone and call a friend who is facing some difficulty, or stopping and speaking to someone even though we left home in a hurry to get somewhere.  Too often we fail to see some little moments of caring for another as the reason God has provided for us another day.  Some people may be at a place of feeling that they are not going to make it through the day and we may be God's way of answering a prayer prayed somewhere in their behalf.  Let is never be said there is a day without purpose.