I often evaluate the days of my life with the phrase, “It was a good day.”
Yesterday was a good day. What makes a good day? Each day is different, unique, with new challenges and new opportunities. The newness of each day reflects God’s creative genius as we experience the world; newness also describes the reality of our spiritual lives.
Describing yesterday is not difficult: 9-10 hours of driving for a round-trip to the Dallas area, plus about 6 hours of meeting. Add a little rev-up time in the very early morning hours and a little wind-down in the evening. On the surface, it sounds like a pretty ho-hum day, long and tiring.
The purpose of the meeting was to work through the details of a new accord between the Association Amicus clinic in Honduras and VCOM, a private College of Medicine based in Blacksburg, Virginia on and near the campus of Virginia Tech. I attended the meeting as chairman of the board of Amicus, along with the chairman of the clinic operations committee and the Associate Vice-President of International Operations from VCOM. In six hours, we succeeded in working through the details of a new agreement. That might be enough to deserve the “good day” label.
But good days are much more than external, superficial successes or failures. Good days include God’s presence and power in our lives, his protection, his provision, his gracious desire to include us in the work of the kingdom. We are blessed to be included in something that is much bigger than we are. In Christ, God makes us a kingdom of his sons and daughters. While God provides for us here on this earth, this is not the ultimate goal of our existence. As sons and daughters of God, we will one day go to live where royalty lives.
As you live this day, I pray for you the kind of spiritual sensitivity that will let you pillow your head tonight and conclude, “This has been a good day.”