This Is The Day The Lord Has Made

Psalm 118:24 says “This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

Every week recently at Compass Bible Church we have been singing the song “This Is the Day”. The lyrics to this song are quite simple yet encouraging and convicting for the believer. I am reminded that we can be glad and rejoice everyday we wake up because this day has been God-made! In fact this day has been ordained and planned perfectly by the hand of God. God is in control, He reigns, He is sovereign and therefore our circumstances are not by chance. Whether everything in our lives seems to be going great as the hand of the Lord seems to be blessing us or whether we are suffering as we go through a trial we can rejoice and be glad in today!

The word rejoice in the Greek means to be exceedingly glad and to be glad means to be well and thriving. What a neat concept to think about. As Christians no matter what is going on in this world or in our lives we can always say we are well! It reminds me of the hymn, my favorite hymn by Horatio Spafford “It is Well With My Soul”. “This hymn was writ¬ten af¬ter several trau¬matic events in Spaf¬ford’s life. The first was the death of his only son in 1871, shortly followed by the great Chi¬ca¬go Fire which ru¬ined him fi¬nan¬cial¬ly (he had been a successful lawyer). Then in 1873, he had planned to travel to Europe with his family on the S.S. Ville Du Havre, but sent the family ahead while he was delayed on business. While cross¬ing the At¬lan¬tic, the ship sank rapidly after a collision with an¬o¬ther ship, and all four of Spaf¬ford's daugh¬ters died. His wife Anna sur¬vived and sent him the now fa¬mous tel¬e¬gram, "Saved alone." Shortly afterwards, as Spaf¬ford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write these words as his ship passed near where his daugh¬ters had died.” (Wikipedia) In this hymn as we read about bliss and sorrow Spafford ends each thing with “it is well with my soul”.

As Christians that is the truth! We can rejoice today and always and be well because we have been saved by a living powerful and loving God who has planned and ordained today and who is in complete control!