It's 5:30 am, your alarm clock rings, you hit the snooze button for ten minutes more, or you simply shut off the alarm and choose to sleep an extra few minutes. But if you do the latter, like I sometimes do, you really aren't getting any extra sleep because you are subconsciously looking at that clock every minute. So what we are really doing is just prolonging the idea of actually rising up to begin our day. This is one of about 35,000 decisions the average adult will make in one day. Most of them are really simple ones too,such as: choosing which clothes to wear, what to eat for breakfast, which route to drive to work, do I want coffee or tea. The decisions are endless. But it is the choices at the very beginning of the day that can affect your entire attitude for that day.
If you carry with you a relationship with the Almighty God then some of the more important choices you make and even the simple ones should be easy.
If you wake up to a day you are not looking forward to for whatever reason,the easy choice would be to declare:
This is the day the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it.
(Psalm 118:24)
Now if you know you have a day in front of you that you do not want to confront for whatever the situation may be, choose to remember:
For we walk by faith, not by sight. (2Cor.5:7)
And if you begin your day by reading a devotion or simply reading a scripture of passage, you should obviously choose to apply that Word to your day:
But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;
for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. (James 1:22-24)
The choices we make in a day are numerous, but if the right choices are being made to start that day,the possibilities are endless.
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