This is the Day!

“This is the Day the Lord Has Made!”

“This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24

Recently, while going through a rough week, God put this verse on my heart. I literally woke up every morning and this verse would be the first thing on my mind. It was hard for me to rejoice but I knew that’s what God wanted me to do. So I had a choice to make....stay in the slump of stress that I was in or remind myself that God had made this day and I can rejoice in it. I knew that I didn’t have it in me to rejoice but that with Him I could rejoice. I couldn’t find this joy on my own but if I sought His help I would find it. And you know what, each of those days that I chose to rejoice, I found the joy! Sometimes it was in a hug from my son or something funny my daughter did or watching a show with my other daughter or a call from my husband midday. That joy came in various forms, some big and some so small that if I wasn’t seeking joy I would have missed them. God made this day that we are in right now and I choose to rejoice in it. So what will you choose to do?