One Day at A Time.

A Day at A Time. 

(abridged)

by Arch Alexander

"...as your days, so shall your strength be."  Duteronomy 33:25

This is a great and glorious promise. And just a couple of verses further on, "The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms."  verse 27

Notice how the promise runs. Not as your life is, not as your years are, not even as your weeks are, but as your days, so shall your strength be. For each day as it comes. God's promise is that strength will be given you, but just for a day at a time. Leave tomorrow with God, my brother, until it comes. That is what the word of God lays upon you as a duty. Live this day at your best and bravest, trusting that God's help will not fail you. And for the duties and trials of tomorrow, however hard and heavy, believe that strength for that day also will be given you.

You cannot have failed to observe what an important place this way of life had in the teaching of Jesus Christ. He was always trying to get men to trust the coming days to God, and to live fully, worthily and nobly today. He was dead against the practice of adding to the burdens of today fears and forebodings of tomorrow. It is in love to us, in his desire to save us unnecessary pain, that he bids us remember that, "...do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34

The habit of living ahead, as so many of us do, prevents us from getting the full taste and flavor of the happiness and blessing that is ours today. Leave all your tomorrows with God - it is what he wants you to do - and humbly and gratefully take from his hand his gift of today and the strength that comes with it. 

When We are Weak - Then We are Strong.

"That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2 Corinthians 12:10

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." verse 9.

I guess I should count myself lucky that I feel weak and helpless in this world. I look at people who have self-confidence and success in this life and I am tempted to envy them. Taking pleasure in my weakness is something I have yet to learn. I admit it; life scares me. Every day I have to ask God for strength to face the day. He always helps me.

Too much self-confidence is bad; not enough self-confidence feels bad, but maybe it isn't since you certainly feel your need for God's help. I read these next verses this morning and it makes me glad God uses the weak people of this world.

Things which are despised, hath God chosen.—I:COR.1:28.

Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

Jesus, . . . saw two brethren, . . . casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me.—Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.—We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God.

Acts 2:7.Matt.4:18,19. -Acts 4:13.I Cor.2:4,5.John 15:16,5. -II Cor.4:7.

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