Today's Centrality

Today is another sunny and still quite mild day

in an especially beautiful fall in southern Ontario!

What we do with Today, no matter the weather 

or whoever or wherever we are,

 has an eternal bearing!

Today matters!

Give us a King- Alistair Begg

  

(The excerpt below is found in the message above)

‘It is interesting that Samuel’s life is marked by long periods of silence, then moments when He comes to the fore. He could not ever come to the fore in such usefulness were it not for the fact that long periods of silence were marked by steady faithfulness. What most of us do in the hum drum nature of our lives, in the private personal way, in the routine activities that are our days, those are the things that make us (and Alistair repeats, ‘those are the things that make us’), and it was certainly so with Samuel.

 

Not what was yesterday or morrow’s yet to be

Today alone requires full responsibility

Today’s centrality twixt past and future set

Is all we ever have wherewith a lifetime to beget

To fret for what is not is gross futility

To work with what today allots is wise humility

To recognize its charge cloaked in the commonplace

To trust God with a thankful heart for His unfailing grace

The place of Here and Now, otherwise called today

In light of what mercies endow, bids us to work and pray

Because today effects accountability

The wise do not neglect/forget this most solemn reality

…that nobody escapes. Prepare to meet Thy God

Let hunger feast upon His Word, to leave us fully awed

Not in morrow’s unknown or Bygone’s beaten path

But in Today, the steppingstone to endless love or wrath

The aftermath of feet stirring Today's brief woo

Inevitably leads to He whose Breath of Life we drew

Where today’s toll unchains links in a sacred cord

Until only the soul remains to receive life’s reward

© Janet Martin

Eccles.12:6

Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, 

and the golden bowl is broken; 

before the pitcher is shattered at the spring,

 and the wheel broken at the well,