Article September 21, 1998 Issue

Yea! It's God's day!

Are you ready and raring to go?

By Donald R. Loster

Most of us have awakened on the day of some special event with a great sense of exuberance—a long-awaited trip, participation in a sporting event, recognition for some accomplishment, and so on. I looked in on my three-year-old daughter one morning just as she woke. She opened her eyes, burst out with a "Yea!" —and then she paused. It was obvious she couldn't think of anything special scheduled for that day. But she saw no reason why that should make the day any less special to her. Unrestrained, she exclaimed, "It's God's day!"

How much we all want and need that childlike joy, that eagerness for every day that God has made. Indeed, "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" (Ps. 118:24).

But what is the day that God hath made? A twenty-four-hour cycle of work, play, sleep, and eat? It's got to be much more than that. Science and Health gives a spiritual description of day that begins, "The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love" (p. 584).