This Is The Day The Lord Has Made

September 2025

The Lord gives us each day as a blessing so that we may be a blessing to others. The Psalmist said, “This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24). The best way to live is looking forward, not backward — straight ahead with faith and not with fear or worry. Life is not easy, and we must trust the Lord for His strength, wisdom, and guidance.

The Lord has designed, fashioned, and tailored each day for us. He gives us the sufficient grace to handle anything that comes our way. Former President Jimmy Carter, a born again believer, was given the news that his cancer has travelled to his brain. He is facing this huge trial with peace, assurance, and dependence upon the Lord.

The Apostle James said, “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing the testing of your faith produces patience” (James 1:2-3). When we commit our lives to Christ we must accept whatever He brings on a daily basis. Our heavenly Father knows best; He makes no mistakes. We need not ask, “Why me” but rather, “What would He teach us from the situation?”

Dr. F.W. Boreham tells about his stay in a quaint old cottage in England occupied by a minister’s widow. She had given him her bedroom, and in the morning when he pulled up the blind, he saw that into the glass of the windowpane had been cut the words, “This is the day.” He asked the elderly lady about it at breakfast. She explained that she had a lot of trouble in her time and was always afraid of what was going to happen tomorrow. One day she read the words of Psalm 118:24. It occurred to her that it meant any day, this day. “Why should I be afraid of the days if He makes them?” So she scratched the words as well as she could into the windowpane, so that every time she drew her blind in the morning she was reminded that “This is the day.” Realizing the Lord made it, she was no longer afraid.

Dear saint, as we awaken tomorrow let us remember, “This is the day the Lord has made…” The Lord Jesus in words of the Lord’s Prayer said, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Whatever He gives, we accept; whatever He allows, we accept; whatever happens, we accept. Let us not complain, be frustrated, or be disappointed in whatever happens in the day. The Potter knows how to make beautiful vessels from common clay. This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Thought for the month: Life is too short to be sad; eternity lies ahead, so let’s be glad.