A New Day

(Our guest writer today is Rhonda Bare, my good friend.  She is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene and one of the pastor's serving at the church we attend.  Welcome Rhonda. Thanks for your words today.)

Do you remember playing tether-ball when you were a kid.  If we missed the ball we would often yell “Do-over!”  Nine times out of ten you wouldn't get it. 

And today, some mornings we just want to shout to the world at large, “Do-over!” 

Sometimes life can seem so overwhelming that we want to stay in bed and yell, “Do-over!”  But there is always something out there that says, “Get up, no do-overs.” 

~Work is waiting.  

   ~Children need you.  

      ~You need to find a job.  

         ~If you miss one more class, you will be 

            kicked out to school.  

So we climb out of bed but our hearts aren’t in it because we can’t see anything changing in the day ahead without a “Do-over.”

For most of my 20-year career as an RN, I worked in Obstetrics.  One of my favorite tasks was bathing the new babies.  Almost every time, I thought about the possibilities in each little life.  Could this tiny baby be a future president, or a nurse, or a mom or dad?  Often I would say a silent prayer of blessing over this little life asking God to fill their future with His Presence.

Just like the new baby, we do get a “do-over” each morning.  With Christ, each new day has the possibility to be more than you can imagine.  Tomorrow morning before you climb out of bed, ask God to bless your day with His Presence. 

Remember:

-Today is always a new day.

-With God’s Presence, it is a fresh start.

-Invite Him to help you see this day with “new” eyes.  Don’t live in past failures, but learn from them.

When you get up tomorrow morning, His message is for you, “…be made new in the attitudes of your mind and put on the new self, created to be like God…”  

~Ephesians 4:25b

“Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fail.  They are new every morning, great is Your faithfulness.  I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.’”  ~Lamentations 4:22-24

~Rhonda Bare

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