“It’s Not My Day"

Psalm 118:24

We’ve all uttered those words. You may have said that already this morning. Usually, a series of unfortunate events spark such an emotional response. We feel like the day was a loss. We accomplished nothing, and very little went our way. We conclude that the day served no real purpose. “It’s not my day.”

Here is the problem with that statement: it's self-centered. We are making that assessment of the quality of that day based on how we experienced it. The subjective standard is us. Whether we had a good day or a bad day is determined by whether things went our way, we got what we wanted, and we were happy with the outcomes. It's all about us when we say, “It's not my day.”

“It’s not my day.” Truthfully, though, it never was. King David wrote, “This is the day that the Lord has made…” It was always His day. It was a day He wrote long ago. He had authored the day before you showed up on the scene. In the designing of that day, He was more concerned with His grand plan, the grand narrative…