"THIS IS THE day that the Lord hath made." It is the Lord's gift. But for His goodness and mercy we should not have seen Today. His goodness is new upon us every morning.
But why should God give us Today? He given us so many; rarely have we given one back to him. He gave us Today that we might honor and serve Him better than one day we hitherto accepted from His hand.
How strangely wonderful would it be if but a single day could be fully given back to God by us; if on arising in the morning we would call upon Him: "Cause me to hear Thy lovingkindness in the morning," and then through Today in all things be guided by His voice, trust Him, love Him, obey Him.
If from youth a man accepts Today as God's gift and lives it by His grace, he exalts the name of God and brings strength to his nation.
TO YOUTH
Here is your armor: the sheild of glorius youth
The keen spurs of the mind, the sword of vision.
Go forth and find the Holy Grail of Truth,
Unmindful of the multitude's derision.
Today is yours, and yours the confidence
Of garnered knowledge and our past mistakes:
Subdue the hosts of ignorance and pretense:
Bring back the only cup our thristing slakes.
You shall erase the scars of this dark hour,
The lines of hunger and the wounds of pain;
Yours the great spirit that must rise to power
And give a lost world peace and faith again
When God says "now" let no man say "tomorrow."
Today is better than tomorrow
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