From the pen of LEROY SEDGWICK...

How Important Is Today?

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof" (Matthew:6:34c).

When we are young, we look forward to the future -- whether it be birthday, holiday, first day of school (or last). It seems that all the important times are in the future, and time moves so slowly (if it hasn't stopped altogether) that the important day seems as though it will never arrive.

Then the time comes when all those "momentous" things have happened, and we think there is nothing to look forward to, so we spend our days reminiscing over the past -- longing for the "good ol' days." They were exciting times -- or so they seemed -- and to recall them fills our "todays" until we have no time for the present.

But, what was it Jesus said? Be not anxious for the morrow; for the morrow will be anxious for itself" (Matthew 6:34). So, we need to grow out of the "anxiety for that which is yet to be," and use the present as the only time we have. James wrote, "...ye know not what shall be on the morrow. . .ye ought to say. If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that" (James 4:14,15).

An unknown author wrote:

				"Look well to this day,
			For tomorrow is only a vision
				And yesterday is only a dream,
			But today, well lived,
				Makes every tomorrow a vision of hope
			And every yesterday a dream of joy.
				Look well, then, to this day."

So, work today that you may be prepared for whatever should come tomorrow. Work today that all your yesterdays will be worth remembering. But, LIVE TODAY!

How important is today? Hear Paul: "...behold, now is the acceptable time; behold now is the day of salvation" (II Corinthians 6:2). NOW is today; so live today with faith and hope. Yesterday is gone; tomorrow will take care of itself.

--Leroy Sedgwick