Would you like to reduce your stress?
Reduce your anxiety, possibly lower your blood pressure.
The Bible has a recommendation for you that is effective and time-tested.
When reading the account of creation in Genesis chapter 1,
we encounter this recurring statement.
And there was evening and the morning, the first day, and there was evening and the morning,
the second day, onto the sixth day of creation.
The lesson for us is that our Savior and Creator Jesus Christ created one day at a time.
The power to create light on day one wasn't the power to create the firmament on day two
or the dry land on day three along with vegetation.
Power for each day.
That's the way you and I are supposed to live.
That's the way God's function and has given it to us.
As an example for life, it is guaranteed my listening friend.
If we would approach life that way, we would significantly reduce our stress
and our degree of worry.
Too often we reach into the future
and bring perceived problems and combine them with the real problems of today.
But your Creator has taught you one day at a time.
Jesus tells us, take no thoughts for the morrow,
for the morrow shall take thoughts for the things of itself.
Hence, so I recommend to you as you keep the Sabbath holy,
that you follow the example of your Creator one day at a time.
My favorite writer outside of the Bible, Ellen White,
makes this comment in Bible commentary volumes 7 page 974 Paragraph 3.
It is not necessary to gain strength a month ahead.
We are to conquer from day to day.
My listening friend, my message to you is very very simple.
Function one day at a time. Whatever your problem, your addiction,
your victorious today, one day at a time.
And surely, if you do it today, you have reason to believe you can do it tomorrow.
As you keep the Sabbath holy, my listening friend, remember that God wants you to live,
one day at a time, and conquer, one day at a time.
May the Lord bless you and doubly bless your children as you keep the Sabbath holy.