It's Friday or at least it was....

Some years ago Loverboy had a hit song titled Everybody’s Working for the Weekend. This week the school schedule made that easier as we started on Thursday and then came Friday. The weekend is upon us. What we have been working for right? That is a funny thing about us. We never seem to be content. When we are children we are always eager to be the next year in age never mind that our 5th birthday was yesterday when asked we will soon be 6. As a teenager, we can’t wait to be an adult. We are “too mature” for that. When an adult we can’t wait to be married and when married to be a parent and so on and so on. We are just never content! What is so much better about what’s coming than where we are?


This same attitude exists for what should have been. A child that has been held back a year for any reason always insists they should be a ___ grader not where they are. Never mind their maturity, health or anything else. “I could have been” or “I should have been” are common phrases. What about where we are? Are we living to the fullest extent each day? Living every moment in such a way that at the end of the day as we lay in bed there are no regrets?

I am not suggesting that there should be no balance between today and future days. There needs to be planning and preparation for future goals and objectives. But they are just that FUTURE goals and objectives. How much life today are we missing focused on the future tomorrow? Working for the weekend on Monday discounts the living for Monday-Friday. What about the blessings of each day, the opportunities for growth and progress for love and grace that each day offers in and of itself? Jesus said for us not to worry about tomorrow for today has enough problems. The Israelites of the exodus were provided by God food called manna on a daily basis with the exception of the Sabbath. On the Sabbath preparation day they could gather two days of food so as to rest and not work on the Sabbath. If they gathered too much the manna would spoil. No stockpiled shelves with food in the cupboard. Of course they were nomadic and had no cupboard. They were dependent on God to provide every single day for their existence.

I see this as an example of grace and how it works in our lives. “For it is by grace through faith you have been saved.” There is enough grace for today and tomorrow there will be enough for tomorrow. Our very lives depend upon grace for our rescue in eternity but today as well. This makes for day to day living one moment at a time dependent on God to provide everything, depending on God for our very lives.

1 As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Psalm 42:1-2a NIV 1984

We live by a plan of God’s design and purpose not ours. God’s is not working for the weekend. He needs no rest, no sleep. I suggest we work each day to live the fullest life possible in Christ allowing us to fall into slumber nightly or for eternity with no regrets. We cannot ask “what if I had given everything?” because we know we have!