This is the Day...

While getting ready for church this morning, I heard a familiar passage being read and this thought popped into my head. In the Bible where it says "This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it", there is no mention of the day in question being Sunday or the Sabbath. Why then do we seem to focus and concentrate our thought of celebration and gladness on Sunday? Wouldn't it be more appropriate to rejoice and be glad everyday and not just once a week? I don't know about you, but I personally would consider a person weird if they were down and depressed for six days straight and then once a week they decided that they were going to be happy. We call those people schizophrenic, not to poke fun at this serious medical condition, (disclaimer). Rather than dwelling on the misery and pain that we see all around us on a daily basis, wouldn't it be better to rejoice that you have been given the chance to live another 24 hours? Isn't that reason enough to rejoice? Rather than turning on the news and being overwhelmed by the horrors that you see in your community, wouldn't it be a more admirable and worthy way to spend your time ministering to the needs of a neighbor? Shouldn't we be able to be glad that our condition is not as bad as that of another? Now I'm not saying to rejoice in another person's misery, but it does help to put our petty squabbles and minor discomforts into better perspective when we see the anguish of another who has things far worse than you or I. So tomorrow before you wallow in your own self pity, take a moment, reflect on all that God has done for you, and rejoice and be glad in the day and the time that you have been so graciously given...