When a new day dawns there speaks a voice, for those who have ears to hear, the voice of God, proclaiming: ‘Here is a fresh, unspoilt opportunity! Here is a clean page of the book; and even though some of the earlier pages have been full of blunders, smudges and mistakes which shame you bitterly to think of them, here is this page, untouched and spotless, waiting for the story you will write on it today. All the past is finished and forgiven. This is your hour of opportunity. I make all things new.’
That miracle of renovation can happen every morning. And all that you require, in order to know the joy and thrill of it yourself, is the resolve to begin each day by surrendering your life to God, as definitely as if you had never done it before… Every morning, to go down on your knees and say, ‘Dear God, I don’t ask to see the distant scene; but here, for the next twenty-four hours, is my life – I give it back to you, to guard, and bless and control!’ That is why the morning seasons of prayer and communion with God before the business of the day begins are so important – they give the daily divine miracle its chance to work out in your experience, and will make all things new and fresh and fair.
JS Stewart – The Strong Name (1940)
I love that comment - "the miracle of renovation can happen every morning". Wow.
The phrase that jumped out at me was "the daily divine miracle". How amazing to hear the promise that for every person, every day there will be a divine miracle.
ReplyDeleteOnce again it's "amazing grace" - that even I am loved so much by God that He should consider me worthy to receive a miracle a day. And how sad if I become too busy to be alert to that miracle!