“Today is a good day for a good day”

My favorite morning prayer: “Dear Lord, So far I've done all right. I haven't gossiped, haven't lost my temper, haven't been greedy, grumpy, nasty, selfish, or overindulgent. I'm really glad about that. But in a few minutes, God, I'm going to get out of bed. And from then on, I'm going to need a lot more help.”

“Today is a good day for a good day” has become a popular phrase recently. It might seem cliché. But clichés are cliché because they are true.

 

 

God’s mercy is new every morning (Lam. 3:23). Each day, God reveals His mercy to us in a way that we haven't ever experienced before. When we wake up, we have a decision to make. We can embrace God’s mercy and choose to have a good day. Or, we can dwell on yesterday’s sin and struggles, and choose to have a bad day.

 

 

God is merciful. God’s merciful compassion is infinite and inexhaustible. God demonstrated His mercifulness by sending Jesus to take the judgment that was rightfully ours. God waits and works now for all people to turn to Jesus and to live under His justification. Eugene Peterson describes it this way in the Message: “Don’t overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. God isn’t late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn’t want anyone lost. He’s giving everyone space and time to change.”      (2 Peter 3:9)

 

 

Each day, we wake up anew and we start fresh. It doesn't matter what we did yesterday, God’s mercy is available to us today. We have been given a clean slate.

 

 

“In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning,   I lay my request before you and wait expectantly.” Ps. 5:3

           

 

Planning for a smooth transition back into the school year can really make a difference between a rocky start and strong one for the children under your care. The more confident, comfortable, and equipped a child feels about entering the next grade, or a new school, the better he or she will perform in the classroom.

 

 

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”                                              (2 Corinthians 5:17).

 

 

Everyone deserves a second chance – a clean slate.

 

 

“Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ.”                                                                             (1 Corinthians 1:30 MSG).

 

 

Every morning, wipe everyone’s slate clean. Let’s start everyday like it was a new day with new beginnings 

 

 

 

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

 

 

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever! Amen.”                                 (Ephesians 3:16-21).