End Your Day Well.

As my day will soon come to an end, I'm brought back to something a godly friend of mine once said. He said he's challenged himself to journal at the end of each day and instead of recapping his day and all that went wrong and could have gone better and what he did well and areas where he could improve--he told me he was going to recap all of the reasons that day that he had to be grateful to God.

I'm not even to the end of my day and my day is screaming with blessings from the Lord! Today God secured my finances, today God brought me closer to a much-desired friend, today a kid that I've been dying to get to know said, "Hi Jacky!" in the halls today. The list goes on and on.

I'm caught thinking about this passage in 2 Corinthians chapter 10, where Paul is writing to the Corinthians.

"12We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. 13We, however, will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God himself has assigned to us, a sphere that also includes you. 14We are not going too far in our boasting, as would be the case if we had not come to you, for we did get as far as you with the gospel of Christ. 15Neither do we go beyond our limits by boasting of work done by others. Our hope is that, as your faith continues to grow, our sphere of activity among you will greatly expand, 16so that we can preach the gospel in the regions beyond you. For we do not want to boast about work already done in someone else’s territory. 17But, 'Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.'  18For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends."

Today, feed yourself with this Word. Decide what it means to you. And maybe we'll take the example of an old friend and write out tonight what it is that we have to be grateful to God for today.

Prayer: Lord, thank You for all of the ways, seen and unseen, that you continue to bless us with. God, we give You all the credit, all the thanks, all of the boasting. We boast in You Lord and the attention You take in every one of our lives. We see that you're at work on the mountain top and in the valley of our lives God. Thank You Father for giving Your Son to die for our sins. We are eternally grateful.