Today
Billboard I saw in Gulu, Uganda, 2008
Today is really all we have, but it is ours to use or abuse, to cherish or to waste, just as we choose. How we work with what is essentially the raw material of life will be governed by our attitudes and personal hang-ups. We may see a day as only a pebble in the ocean of a life-time, or we can look at it as though it were a rock in the foundation of, for example, a Sydney Opera House, a cathedral, even a family home or perhaps a lighthouse...
It is easy to be overwhelmed by the thought of how fleeting each day is and often, how little is achieved. The trick is to see the small in its place as part of the large; the single stitch as part of the warp and woof of the finished article, each colour charefully chosen, blended, harmonised.
It doesn't do to 'despise 'the day of small things. Zechariah wrote a prophetic word for Zerubbabel that with his own hands he would lay the foundation of the Temple in Jerusalem and that his hands would also finish it. How would Zerubbabel achieve this seemingly impossible task?
"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." Matt. 6:28-29
Today is really all we have, but it is ours to use or abuse, to cherish or to waste, just as we choose. How we work with what is essentially the raw material of life will be governed by our attitudes and personal hang-ups. We may see a day as only a pebble in the ocean of a life-time, or we can look at it as though it were a rock in the foundation of, for example, a Sydney Opera House, a cathedral, even a family home or perhaps a lighthouse...
It is easy to be overwhelmed by the thought of how fleeting each day is and often, how little is achieved. The trick is to see the small in its place as part of the large; the single stitch as part of the warp and woof of the finished article, each colour charefully chosen, blended, harmonised.
It doesn't do to 'despise 'the day of small things. Zechariah wrote a prophetic word for Zerubbabel that with his own hands he would lay the foundation of the Temple in Jerusalem and that his hands would also finish it. How would Zerubbabel achieve this seemingly impossible task?
"Not by might, nor by power,
but by my Spirit,"
says the Lord of Hosts.
see Zech 4: 6-10
We have access to the same power source, with a Great High Priest, the author and finisher of our faith, who is Himself the capstone. We can be confident that His guidance will enable us to achieve something beautiful and worthwhile that pleases Him... but we have to start with what we've got... and all we really have... is Today!
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