Dude, I gotta give it up to Mark Batterson. He said what I was thinking before I wrote it.
Have you ever stopped to thank God for the simple fact that He designed the universe in a way that we experience both day and night?
For some reason, He designed planet earth in a way that we’d make one full rotation around our axis every 24 hours. And I’m so grateful. Why? Because I have bad days. But I can go to sleep and wake up the next morning and it’s a new day! His mercies are new every morning! I think our daily cycle is God’s way of saying, “You get to start over every 24 hours.”
So thank God for a new day. And thank God for a new year. For some reason, He choose to design our particular galaxy in a way that we’d make one round-trip around the sun every 365 days. And then we get to start over.
We sang the Song of Hope by the Robbie Seay Band on Sunday. It’s one of my personal favorites. And I love one line of lyrics: I can start again.
So true. So grateful.
