Changing your day

God not only wants to change your life, he wants to change your day. That's what women's Bible teacher Beth Moore said, and I like it a lot. I'm tired of plans to change my life. I'm about ready to have my day changed instead. I may even give up on that and just change my present moment. Excuse me a minute….

One day I tried to count all the times in Francis Schaeffer's book True Spirituality where he talked about changing your day. It's only 180 pages but it became almost impossible because he said it in so many ways. He bent over backwards. He exhausted English vocabulary. It was his only point in the book, really: Trust God this minute on the clock. Believe God's many promises for your life now. Claim the present power of the blood of Jesus for your life immediately.

"When we say we live in a personal universe and God the Father is our Father, to the extent that we have less than a trusting attitude we are denying what we say we believe. We say that as Christians we have by choice taken the place of creatures before the Creator, but as we show a lack of trust we are exhibiting that at that moment, in practice, we have not really so chosen." (Italics his)

I have to do it all the time: I rebuke unbelief and make a conscious choice to say with Jesus, "I will put my trust in him" (Hebrews 2:13). And it changes my day.