August 29

Live today

“I must walk today” (Luke 13:33).
“Give us THIS DAY our daily bread” (Matt. 6:11).

Apprehension sometimes comes from looking too far ahead. How few of us really live in the present! Most of us are perpetually saddened by looking back upon the past, or filled with apprehensions from looking forward into the dim and shadowy future. We are crippled in our exertions because we fail to seize vigorously upon the present. Let us learn to live now. What calmness of mind it produces, what weight of character—“I do one thing at a time.”


No longer forward, nor behind,
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now, and here.

I plow no more a desert land
For harvest, weed and tare;
The manna dropping from God’s hand
Rebukes my painful care.

I break my pilgrim staff, I lay
Aside the toiling oar,
The angel sought so far away
I welcome at my door.
—J. G. Whittier.

A Christian can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next six months, or take sufficient air into his lungs at once to sustain life for a week to come. We must draw upon God’s boundless stores of grace from day to day, as we need it.
—D. L. Moody.

Tomorrow you have no business with. You steal if you touch tomorrow. It is God’s. Every day has in it enough to keep any man occupied, without concerning himself with the things beyond.
—Henry Ward Beecher.

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