Sessions Include:

A Good Day / Lesson #1
It Starts with Your Bible on Your Lap

A Good Day / Lesson #2
Do the Work God Called You to Do

A Good Day / Lesson #3
Rest from the Craziness

A Good Day / Lesson #4
Relationships that Refresh

A Good Day / Lesson #5
Exercise

A Good Day / Lesson #6
Food That Nourishes 

A Good Day / Lesson #7
A Little Fun

“Have a good day,” the store clerk said in a mechanical manner, as she bagged the groceries and handed them to Frances.

Gritting her teeth, Fran turned to a fellow customer and said, “I get so tired having just about everybody I meet tell me to have a good day.”

Maybe you agree with disgruntled Fran.

So how about aiming for a best day, instead?

“How can I have a best when I never have a good day?” some will complain.

Personally, I’ve found a simple, workable formula. It’s this: First thing in the morning, honestly turn your day over to God. I don’t mean in a pious “leave it to the Lord” sense, a withdrawal from personal responsibility. I have in mind squarely facing up to the known realities as well as the unpredictables the day can bring, then talking it over with our loving Father, asking Him to supply each hour’s needs. Another thing, thanking the Lord ahead of time for what He is going to do, then stepping out the door expecting Him to be all that He has promised to be, makes for the best kind of day. I like to add, “And Lord, because you are so good to me, will you please give me the privilege of being a special help to someone else today?”

That offering of yourself makes for an especially good day. When Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to receive, He was not just framing a noble sentence. The statement is loaded with implications that we have probably not even begun to fathom. But we can try. We can practice giving, and the finest gift is ourselves, our time given to help someone.

Maybe we have things all turned around, tending to think of a good day as one in which everything comes our way; few or no frustrations; much success—and of course those make for good feelings throughout the day. However, for the inner joy that makes the day stand out as “best,” we need the fulfillment of our desire to give, to meet someone else’s need.

Some of the emptiest people I know, Christians who have little joy in their faces and not much excitement in their daily lives, are occupied solely in meeting their own needs. And at the end of the day many of them are sighing, “Another day—and what has it brought me?”

It need not be so, for each day is “the day which the Lord hath made.” By an act of the will, we can rejoice in it, whatever its hours bring; it can be a best day.

Lockerbie, Jeanette. 1980. More Salt in Kitchen. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers.

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