JESUS CHRIST…TODAY (Heb 13:8). No one is ever crushed by the burden of the day. It is when we add yesterday’s failures and tomorrow’s worries to our burden today that we are immobilized. The Lord is “a very present help.” Two important facts we need fastened like frontlets to our foreheads: Christ told us, “Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” (Mt 6:34), “And…‘My grace is sufficient for you’” (2 Cor 12:9). Today provides enough trouble to deal with, but also enough grace to handle it (assuming we believe the Lord!). Handley Moule writes: “Life is built a day at a time, and the Scriptures keep this constantly in view in their promises. So Christian, tired and somewhat disheartened, take the Lord a day at a time. Let the life-time you deal with be just for today; and for today you possess nothing less than THE WHOLE CHRIST OF GOD!” The wise Christian doesn’t live for the present, but we should live in the present, with our eyes focused on eternity.
