Today

Life happens so quickly. Before we realize it years have passed, opportunities have been missed and our lives come to a quick finale. I'm thinking about this because of a verse I'll share with you in a moment, but let me talk about today for a bit. Today is what we call these moments of consciousness that we live through. Between our today's we sleep a bit and then another today dawns. We only get today. You can't use tomorrow. Someday is only a dream. All we have is today. Life is made up of thousands of today's. How are you using today? Here's a passage from Psalms that has made me think,

Psalm 95

1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;

let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving

and extol him with music and song.
3 For the LORD is the great God,

the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,

and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,

and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship,

let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
7 for he is our God

and we are the people of his pasture,

the flock under his care.

Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,

as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
9 where your fathers tested and tried me,

though they had seen what I did.

And in Hebrews,

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage one another daily,

as long as it is called Today,

so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.

Today, it's an opportunity to listen to and respond to God. It's an opportunity to walk with him. Today is the only day you have to focus on. In this day, today, worship God, listen to him, don't let sin harden you to him. How you respond to God today affects your tomorrows.