Day 27

"Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." Proverb 27:1

Proverbs 27.

I love this Proverb. There are so many great verses.

"Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth: a stranger and not thine own lips." verse 2

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend: but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." verse 6

"Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel." verse 9

"He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him." verse 14
"Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." verse 17

"As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man." verse 19

"Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." verse 20

But the verse that always gets me is verse one: "Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."

Each morning when we wake, God has provided us with a blank canvas. We can spend our day however we chose. We can serve Him as much or as little as we want. We can read His Word as much or as little as we want. We can spend as much time with Him in prayer as we want. We can tell everyone we see in a day about what He has done for us, and what He has done for them. We can give Him our all.

Or....

We can get up and go about our own business. We can make our own decisions. We can keep quiet about what He has done for us and keep it "just between me and God" because "it's personal. We can hoard our time and waste our time and we can ignore His calling.

We can choose each day whom we want to serve: self or God?

"But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15b

There is no guarantee of tomorrow. That person you saw at the gas station, you know, the one that God told you to give a tract to but you didn't feel like it, you didn't want to seem awkward or interrupt them...you may never get a chance to see them or hand them a tract ever again. God made your paths cross for a reason. He gave you an opportunity to serve Him. You may never get that opportunity again.

This verse is pounded down deep in me. I think of it almost everyday. Which is a good thing, because I need the daily reminder that it is a new day, full of opportunity...I just need to be willing to follow Him and not set my own path.