Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. The sky is gray, the air is thick, and the fog is so heavy you could almost cut it with a knife on this August day in Virginia. When the Living God brought the light over the farm this morning, the world lit up slowly and gently…and then it just stopped. It was like a Heavenly dimmer switch being raised to just the Right Place for the New Day. This new day doesn’t look anything like yesterday, and although the deer still graze, the birds still sing, and my day will have a familiar ring to it, absolutely nothing about this New Day will be like any other Day that has ever come before. This day came, and it will go…and once it is behind me, I won’t be able to change a single thing about it. For me, each new day is a New Day in Christ, filled with Opportunities to be a Part of Miraculous things in His name. Just knowing that this New Day will never be repeated again makes me savor it that much more. Isn’t that the way you face the New Day in your Journey of Faith, too?

It can be so easy to consider each New Day as if it’s “just another day” if we aren’t careful, and we lose Sight of the significance of every Day of Living when we do. We aren’t still here because God has forgotten to take us Home; we’re still here for His Purpose. We don’t exist on this earth just for the pleasures we find; we exist because He has a Plan for our Lives while we’re here. We don’t have breath coming and going from the body by some scientific phenomena; we’re still breathing because He’s not finished with us yet. Before He formed the foundations of the earth, He Planned for each of His Children, too, and each One of us has a Plan and a Purpose to fulfill as long as He has us here. It’s when we consider our Place that we find our Peace, and it’s when we consider our Purpose that we find our excitement and Joy no matter what’s going on (or not going on) in the world around us. It doesn’t matter what happened yesterday; today is a New Day. It doesn’t matter if we squandered yesterday; today is a New Day. None of the wrongs we’ve committed follow us into this New Day…unless we choose not to Repent so that we can continue to carry them with us. None of the heartbreak we felt yesterday has a place in this New Day either…unless we can’t find our way to give it all to Him…yet. None of our encounters happen by chance, and none of those encounters should be overlooked. Every single thing has been Touched by the Master’s Hand, and every tiny little piece of Life has Significance to the One Who ordains each day of Life.

Sometimes people struggle with what their Purpose is, and they can’t find their way to the Meaning of Life because of it. The idea that each New Day is a day to Serve is foreign to them, but that’s just because they don’t understand the Meaning of Life or the significance of Sacrifice. The Miracle of this New Day could be a teachable moment with a child…a chance to Live out your Faith for them to see in Living Color. The Seeds we plant in the Lives of a child are opportunities to Serve that will have Everlasting Impact in ways we won’t see on this side of Heaven…each seed bringing them one step closer to the Living God. Each moment of compassion or kindness extended to the Lost doesn’t go unnoticed by the Living God, and each of those Moments is forever embedded in the hearts of the ones we Serve long after we serve them…bringing them one step closer to the Living God. Each time we extend Love to the “unlovable”… the ones nobody else wants to be bothered with because they’re dirty, or intoxicated, or difficult, is a Miracle in the Making, and each time we extend Christ-like Love, we bring them one step closer to the Living God. Each New Day brings countless opportunities to be a part of a Miracle, but the things we do and say can’t be threaded together for Miraculous things UNLESS we sprinkle the words and the actions with a Heavenly Message. Doing nice things is one thing; doing Nice Things in the Name of Jesus Christ is an entirely different story. Unless we Embrace the New Day with Purpose, and UNLESS we’re willing to mention His Name in all that we do, we’re just “nice” people doing nice things, and HE never gets the Glory for it all. This is the Key to Living a Christ-like Life filled with Miraculous Moments.

I’m not sure what this New Day will bring, but I DO know that the first Priority on my List was to get my Heart in alignment with the Author and Perfector of my Faith. I needed to Surrender control over some things I’ve fooled myself into believing I should or could fix. I needed to kick the one who comes to rob, kill, and destroy back to Hell where he belongs, AND I needed a Good Dose of the Word of God to Remind me that I’m Precious in His Eyes. After all that, NOW I’m Ready to Serve the King of all kings. Had I not been willing to pay attention to the Condition of my Heart…I’d be a worthless Vessel today, that’s for sure. Instead, I’m Refreshed – I’m Revived – AND I WILL BE VICTORIOUS. I am grateful for another day of living…not just because I’m enjoying my Life that absolutely overflows with Blessings…but because I Know that I have a Purpose to Fulfill that was put in Place by the Touch of the Master’s Hand before I was even born. I’m excited AND honored to be used by Him, and I refuse to close out this New Day having missed an opportunity to be part of something Miraculous in His Name…and I’ll never look at each New Day as “just another day” because of it.

How about you?