Psalm 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

      I can personalize the above scripture to say “I will rejoice and be glad.” I choose to rejoice, be a blessing, and be glad that God loves me, no matter what This Day may hold. The facts of the day’s events we face are the events we must go through because the day is what it is. We can prepare for certain occurrences like earthquakes, tsunamis, and tornados, but these catastrophic incidents are beyond our control. We cannot change a day’s events but determine how we will walk during the day’s difficulties that are happening around us. Psalm 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it. Our attitude toward what we face will help us overcome overwhelming odds. On the other hand, the day that the Lord has made may bring some of the most cherished, happy, and loving events we have ever experienced. On all counts of life’s happenings, we choose how to respond to the gift of life that God gave us.

      Everyone has had to confront and live through the day that is at hand. Some of the horrific and terrifying things that have taken place throughout history have all taken place on the day that the Lord had made, and some of the greatest victories, love stories, and miraculous comebacks took place on the same created days. It was a terrible day when the announcement of the Second World War hit the newspaper headlines, and It was a wonderful day when the same newspapers read The War Is Over! It was a heartbreaking day when you were told you had cancer, but it was a smile from ear to ear day when you were told that you had beaten it. Deut. 30:19 Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

      This is the day the Lord has made and I will be what God expects of me on this day. This is what it is, and we will respond through the grace of our God. The day that I suffered a stroke was the day that the Lord had made, and the day I covenanted with the Lord to do all that I could to change the course of my health, was also a day of the Lord. The day I found out that my son was addicted to heroin was a day of the Lord that I wish I could forget. The day that my son was set free from all addiction and the effects of enslavement was also a day of the Lord, that I remember fondly. There is a choice of whether we will rejoice in the day or we will curse the day we are in. The choice is not easy to be made but it is a choice that must be made because we will end up with the results of our choice.

      In the story of Job, there is every kind of emotional turmoil taking place in this recorded account of Job’s life. Everything was going well for Job until one day, everything was destroyed. From the total loss of positions to the death of family members, Job suffered a loss of epic proportions. As hard as it sounds, Job in effect rejoiced in the day that was made when he said, Job 1:21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.” In the misery of the day’s events, Job had not chosen to curse the day nor blame God. Job 1:22 In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God.

      There was another day when the devil brought undue pressure into Job’s life by causing boils to break out all over his body. The excruciating pain became unbearable and after many days Jod cursed the day he was born. Job 3:1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. The psychological attack on Jobs’s character by his friends would have been hard to hear and try to reason through. Nothing was working out for Job. He eventually had a heart-to-heart with God. The Lord pointed out that Job’s hardship was real but greater things were going on around him that were unexplainable. Therefore, Job responded with a repentant heart and declared Job 42:3 You said to me ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel by words without knowledge?’ Therefore I now see I have rashly uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. In effect, Job said, “This is God’s day, and I will be glad in God.”

      Sometimes we need to stop fighting what God is doing in the day we are in and declare, “This is the day God created, and I will live to the fullness within it!” There may be times that we will go through a Job experience of unfairness, (as we perceive what is fair in life) and will need to choose the revelatory Word of God to get us through the hard times. But as the Psalmist said, Psalm 30:5b Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Yes, praise God, because we eventually come through the storms of life, and find the strength to seize the day that the Lord has made for our growth and victory. Therefore, let the day of the Lord be our favourite time for living.