Just some early morning thoughts from me to you…
“Look here, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.’ How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.’”
James 4: 13-14 (NLT)“Live happily with the woman you love through the fleeting days of life, for the wife God gives you is your best reward down here for all your earthly toil.”
Ecclesiastes 9: 9 (TLB)“This is the day which the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
Psalm 118: 24 (RSV)“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3: 16-17 (NIV)
I remember hearing every word he uttered during our meeting a few months ago with my Bride’s oncologist.
First, the good news that the five-year follow-up from her surgery and intense daily radiation treatment, had now assured us that her breast cancer was gone.
And we embraced the promise of one more day, together.
But then the troubling news, shared a few days later after a bone-marrow biopsy, revealing the appearance of a new cancer—smoldering multiple myeloma of her bone marrow.
And yet we boldly began to claim the hope of one more day, together.
Because no matter what we face, no matter the joy or heartache which stretches out before us—God is always there, and always goes with us.
Today is March 3, 2025. It is the only one any of us will have.
Ever. The only one.
What will we do with it.
How will we remember it.
And how will we be remembered by others as we live out our one and only March 3, 2025, in the world around us?
Whose life will be better because of the twenty-four hours of March 3, 2025, which God has given us? Or the twenty-four hours of the next day, and the next, in this short life we have been given here on earth.
As we also remember the pathway Christ provided each of us to follow, to accept, and assure that our eternal life, beyond our short life here, will be with Him in Heaven.
One more day. What will you do with it? And with each day thereafter, which you are given.
What impact will you leave behind?
What legacy will you leave behind in the world around you?
What legacy will you leave in the lives of those close to you, whom God has given to you in sacred trust.
As you embrace one more day with them.
And, personally, as I reflect on the oncologist’s words of not too long ago, I continue to boldly claim the hope of one more day, with my bride.
One more sunset, one more time. One more day, with her.
Diamond Rio, movingly shared that with these words in their song, “One More Day”—
“Last night I had a crazy dream,
A wish was granted just for me.
It could be for anything.
I didn’t ask for money,
Or a mansion in Malibu.
I simply wished for one more day with you.
One more day, one more time,
One more sunset, maybe I’d be satisfied.
But then again, I know what it would do,
Leave me wishing still for one more day with you.
One more day.”
One more day. Then wishing for still one more day.
Today and tomorrow in our short time we live here.
And also believing and embracing what Christ did for us on the Cross—for the assurance of our eternity.
One more day forever, with Him.
In His Name–Scott
You will be moved as you listen to Diamond Rio sing “One More Day.”
