Corona Devo 1671

There's an old Chinese proverb that says, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single ____".

We can fill in that blank: step.

This week my husband and I were blessed to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary. Certainly we have beloved couples in our lives and in our hearts that have shared many more years than twenty together, but for us this was a blessed big deal.

Twenty years is a long time, but as we reminisced and remembered and counted our blessings, I realized something: twenty years happened one day at a time.

This is how our lives are built-up and determined: one day at a time.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. ~Psalm 90:12

Be intentional today: To love God. To serve Him. And to love and serve others in His name.

Whether we are talking about developing (and maintaining) a strong marriage, rearing a child, training a puppy, working a job, or anything at all: everything is established one intentional day at a time.

Let's be wise in God's ways today.

• Get wisdom! Get understanding!  Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.  ~Proverbs 4:5 

• The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, for the ears of the wise seek it out.  ~Proverbs 18:15

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My husband and I looked through wedding pictures and enjoyed scrapbooks that we had made over the years. He made me a detailed and organized scrapbook after our very first year of marriage. It chronicled restaurants visited, travels enjoyed, movies watched, and his favorite meals that I had made throughout our first year together.

He must have kept some sort of journal of our (first) days. It was a special book nineteen years ago, but it seems even more special to me now.

My favorite part was the Bible verse he chose for the cover page.

Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.  ~Deuteronomy 4:9

At that time in our lives, in our marriage...and even in our hearts: we did not have any children and nor did we (could we) know of the children that were to be in our family. And yet the title-page verse of our first-year of marriage scrapbook spoke of not forgetting what God has done and teaching those truths to our (future) children and grandchildren.

Wow.

This is how our lives are built-up and determined: one day at a time.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. ~Psalm 90:12

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How are we choosing, deciding, determining to live for the Lord today?

Today matters.

It's just one day, but every day does matter. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we are taking steps today. What are we stepping in-to, up-to, and towards?

 “Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 

(15) And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. 

But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”  ~Joshua 24:14-15

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What should we concern ourselves with today?  What is our first step?  Well, the Bible gives us much guidance, and it all points toward Jesus.  But God also clarifies what we should not concern/fret/step-into today: worry. 

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? (26) Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (27) Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?  

(28) “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; (29) and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

(30) Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

(31) “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ (32) For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. (33) But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (34) Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. ~Matthew 6:25-34

Let's not worry today. Let's be intentional to live life for the Lord today. One day at a time. One step at a time. One person, one marriage, one family, one job, one calling...one sinner-saved-forever---at a time.

Let's be intentional to live life for the Lord today.

Take it one day (today!) at a time, and in no time at all, it will be twenty years or sixty or a lifetime: lived for God, one day at a time.

This is how our lives are built-up and determined: one day at a time.

So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. ~Psalm 90:12

Be intentional today: To love God. To serve Him. And to love and serve others in His name.

Just today.

And before we know it, one day at a time--will become our testimony.

Blessings,

sarah

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