Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life

Live This Day First

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
Started Monday, October 29, 2012, at about 11:20 PM

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
What will come in the following days?
How many days will I have?
I have no answers for these.


All I can control is the moment 
called now.
I can’t control the tomorrows
that I have and no other time.


It is written that I should say,
“If the Lord wills, I will do this or that”.
I cannot say that I will do this, or I will do that.
I cannot control the rest of the days of my life.


I can think. I can imagine.
I can plan, but it is the Lord that will determine it.
It all depends on what he wants of me
and what he made me for.

God supplied interests, talents, abilities,
and whatever gifts he has given
or he will give to me. Remember,
God is not finished with me yet.


I am digressing just a little bit
but I wonder what would have happened if I
would have desired being an elder several years ago
when I was approached for being one.

I don’t know.
I don’t even know if I should even
be asking such a question of myself
but it was in my mind. Just thinking about it,
I would hope that Crossroads Church would be different
than it turned out to be.
But that is in the past, and the past has not changed.


The future is not what I live in
I must remind myself
that I can only control the moment of time that is now.
I can choose for this moment of time. 

Not for a moment of time yesterday,
 last year, or 50 years ago.
God does let me choose the now 
and each now he gives to me.

It is at this now
I choose to follow
what God leads me through
though I do not know where.

What decision each now 
will require of me to follow? 
Thank you, God, for the peace you give
in choosing to follow you in this now.


God, I open my spirit, my will,
and my mind to you to fill.
I desire your Spirit to fill me and lead
and guide me to follow your lead.


God, I don’t know what talents, interests, 
Or even infirmities and frailties 
you may  provide for me
May your Spirit gently reveal them to me

God, you have so completely
given your written will
As I read your word and meditated upon
 it.
 May I understand more and more of your will?
I want to not only marvel but
 use (and live it)  as you would want me to.


Larry E. Whittington
rockhead2u@comcast.net

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