Daily Affirmations - Day 5 - What Is This? - The Day the Lord Has Made

Day 5: The day the Lord has made

My mouth is filled with Your praise, declaring Your splendor all day long

This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:24 – NKJV).

O Lord our God, the psalmist rallies us to praise, Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever (Psalm 118:1 - NIV).

With each new day, we see Your great love, Your unfailing compassions, and Your renewed mercies. Thank You! We could easily be consumed by the wrongs of this world— its imbalances, its evil, its corruption, its greed— and their impact on the physical, natural, and universal cycles You have put in place for our good.

But You sustain everything everything by Your powerful word (Hebrews 1:3), and You have promised that Your seasons and cycles will continue until the earth is no more: “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease” (Genesis 8:22).

Each new day You fulfil Your promise with such impeccable precision and seamless constancy that we can easily overlook Your marvels and cease to wonder at Your miracles:

In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth (Psalm 19:5-6);

Lord, You make Your sun to rise on the evil and on the good and You send Your rain on the just and on the unjust (Matthew 5:45 - NKJV). And more important even than the material and physical blessings You so generously provide, You continue to offer each day, a new day of salvation; an extension of the time of Your favor (2 Corinthians 6:2).

You continue to hold open the Gate of the Lord, through which the righteous may enter... the stone the builders rejected [who] has become the cornerstone (Psalm 118:20, 22); fully revealed and identified as Jesus (Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:7). From His own lips came the invitation, I AM the gate; whoever enters through Me will be saved (John 10:9 - NIV).

O Lord, in these days of uncertainty, calamity, adversity, and difficulty, our souls cry out for peace and rest. May we be able to say today, I will praise You, for You have answered me, And have become my salvation... This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:21, 24 - NKJV).

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