JUST ANOTHER DAY

How often have you thought to yourself Today is just another day? This attitude has pronounced untold disasters on many a good day. Today if properly viewed is not just another day. It is the beginning of the rest of your life. It also is much more than calculating the minutes within hours that make up days. In fact it is developing an attitude of expectation surrounding a "Good Day".

Just what is a day? Certainly it is much more than time calculations and less involved than just existing.  In a real biblical sense a day has strong meaning. The Hebrew word for day is the word, Yom. This word can mean "daylight; day; time; moment; year, or any specified period of time" Attested at every era of biblical Hebrew, the word Yom occurs more than 2,304 times in our English bible. Yom has several meanings. The word represents the period of "daylight" as contrasted with night time. The word can denote a period of twenty-four hours. Yom can also signify a period of time of unspecified duration.  It is noteworthy that Hebrew people did not divide the period of daylight into regular hourly periods, whereas nighttime was divided into three watches (Ex 14:24; Jud. 7:19). The beginning of a "day" is sometimes said to be dusk (Esth. 4:16) and sometimes dawn (Due. 28:66-67).  no matter how you slice it, our days are as important as you make them.

 In the movie, "Ground Hog Day", the character was destined to repeat each day going over the same events and repeating the same mistakes. If only we could repeat all our yesterdays with the knowledge we have today. We could avoid certain issues and correct others. How idealistic this sounds, but how ironic, we can't change the mistakes of the past. We can only repent of them, learn from them, even avoid them, but we can't erase them.