Christ renews us - One Day at a Time - ‘Therefore we do not lose heart.  Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed each day.  For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So  we fix our eyes on Jesus not on what is seen but what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.’  2 Corinthians 4.16-18.

This verse does not minimise the troubles that we see in our world, nor the tragedies that we read about, more recently Burma and China but reminds us of the fragile nature of life.  ‘Here today, gone tomorrow’ as someone has described it.

If only the people of Burma could have known what was going to happen and similarly China, they could have prepared.  Perhaps all of us have expressed the desire to see beyond today.   Here though the Bible reminds us that God protects his children from tomorrow.  Perhaps by comparison the instances pale into insignificance when we look at China and Burma.  But there are those occasions when it is best not to know about tomorrow.  God protects us from the future.

By living one day at a time we can often avoid discouragement. Experience steady progress and become aware of God’s Grace each step of the way.

It has been said that it is easier to ride a bicycle uphill in the dark for you can only see a few feet ahead in the headlight and it gives the illusion that the road is almost level.  The cyclist though tired concentrates on the bit of road in front of him or her and is able to keep going.  In the daylight the whole hill is revealed and seems so steep and the task insurmountable.

A writer of a bygone era wrote the following:-

‘I will not seek to know the future years,

Nor cloud today with dark tomorrow’s fears.

I will but ask clear light from heaven to show,

How step by step my pilgrimage should go.’

 Thought: -   One of the kindest things God ever did was to put a curtain over tomorrow.