Summary: <br> Every day of your life has brought you to this day. And this day, the very one you woke up to was known by your Creator before you took your first breath. For me, that first breath was 16,233 days ago and all those days has brought me to today, right here and right now.<br> Have you noticed how easy it is to get caught up in concern over the future right now? Perhaps more than ever before, our thoughts drift to concern of what’s coming and worry of what will be. But the question is, what happens to this day when we’re worried about tomorrow?<br> What happens to the opportunities of today when we’re focused on the uncertainty of tomorrow? What happens to the blessings of today when we’re stressed about next week? What happens to the provision of today when we’re dwelling on what was lost yesterday? What is happening to today?<br> Answer: WASTED<br> Psalm 90:12 “Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.” (The Living Bible)<br> Today has a number. A number that will never come again for you. With this numbered day, come numbered opportunities, numbered blessings, and numbered provisions. They are specific. Specifically allotted for this day of life. Arriving for you for this specific day are opportunities, blessings and provisions.<br> But when you mope, when you stew, when you wallow, when you worry, when you fret, when you stress, when you dwell, the allotment for today is missed and it’s not guaranteed for offering again tomorrow.<br> Teach us to number our days. What does this mean? This means identify each day as an individual, stand alone, one-in-a-lifetime opportunity with unique provisions and astounding blessings. And when we identify today as such, we recognize it’s value and we wouldn’t dare want to waste it. For when we learn to number our days, we will start spending them as we should.<br> So, what is your number today? Go ahead and look it up real quick on www.daysold.com (Pause me now and just come back.)<br> So here I am with my 16,233rd day of life, and you with your specific day of life. Now, how can we spend this one as we should?<br> Here are 3 suggestions for spending today as we should:<br> 1. Be Intentional.<br> Ephesians 5: 15-16 “Be very careful, then, how you live— making the most of every opportunity.”<br> Look at today as the miracle it is and live it as such. Be in such wonder and awe over the magnificent work of God to bring us to this exact day of life that fear and worry is crowded out.<br> What have you lived through to get to today? What have you already survived? What have you overcome? Think about it, that was all to bring you to this day, this exact number of days. And how you live this day builds your tomorrows.<br> What if this day were that important?<br> What if the attitude and actions of today determine the offerings of tomorrow?<br> What if what God has given you today is only for today? Just today. Wouldn’t you seize that opportunity? Wouldn’t you savor that blessing?<br> This is living intentionally.<br> 2. Respond instead of React.<br> Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.”<br> How much of this has been running around in your house on quarantine? Running a little short on that patience? Has gentleness been taken out like yesterday’s garbage? Have you been reacting to what is around you instead of responding with what is in you?<br> This scripture says when God’s spirit lives within you, it naturally creates love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It’s IN you. Maybe not around you, but IN you. Let us stop reacting to what is around us and start responding with what is in us.<br>
