This is the day the LORD has made;We will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118: 24, NKJV.
Dear Heavenly Teacher, thank You for another opportunity to grow as we sit at Your feet and learn of You, through the study of Your Word! In the name of Jesus Christ we pray. Amen.
What a wonderful gift of love each new day is! Indeed, each one gives us a reason to “rejoice and be glad.” Those who walk with the Lord can testify to that fact in a special way, because at His ” right hand are pleasures forevermore” (Psalm 16: 11c).
I see love in every act of God’s creation. God could have divided the day in greater chunks; that is, instead of twenty four hour periods, He could have divided it into periods of one hundred and sixty eight hours, the amount of hours in a week. How many of us would have been able to survive a day that long? Though we often say that we wish our days had more hours, such a long day would do us no good.
I have heard say that every day between the hours of 9:00 p. m. to 12:00 midnight, the body repairs itself. How wonderful! I do not know exactly how that works, but I have observed that people who are usually in their beds by 9:00 o’clock p. m., and who get a good night’s sleep, tend to preserve a more youthful appearance; that is they do not seem to age at the same pace of others who go to bed after midnight, no matter how many hours they sleep.
That leads me to ask the following questions: with a one hundred and sixty eight hour day, at what point in this period of time would the body begin to repair itself? Would it need several periods of repair during this extremely long day? How would that affect our work day – How many hours would we work, and how many hours would we rest? How much could the brain take? What would be the fate of workaholics?
Then I think of Jesus’ words, “Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” (Matthew 6: 34c). The problems of one twenty four hour period can oftentimes loom so great before us, that, we sometimes begin to believe, that it is much more than we can bear. Just imagine a day’s problems multiplied by seven!
I know that these suppositions are a bit exaggerated, and perhaps our minds cannot fully grasp them. But just the thought that our Creator had us in mind, and created a day with just sufficient hours, that, by His grace, we can bear “the evil thereof”, makes me want to rejoice in this day, and every day!