{"id":141,"date":"2014-08-13T16:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-08-13T16:05:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:05:06","slug":"day-by-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/13\/day-by-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Day by Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Just-Take-It-Day-By-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-142\" src=\"http:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Just-Take-It-Day-By-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Just-Take-It-Day-By-Day\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>1st Chronicles 23:1 &#8220;<em>When David was old and full of <strong>days<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This first phrase in today&#8217;s reading got me to\u00a0thinkin&#8217;&#8230;\u00a0 we become old when our lives become &#8220;<em>full of days&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The perspective of Scripture is not so much that God takes care of\u00a0our lives,\u00a0but that he takes\u00a0care of our days, one by one.\u00a0We do not need faith to trust God for our life;\u00a0we need faith to trust God for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>this day<\/strong><\/span>!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Give us <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">each day<\/span><\/span> our daily bread<\/em>&#8221; (Luke 11)<\/li>\n<li>Manna was to be gathered &#8220;<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">each morning<\/span><\/span>&#8220;<\/em>; only enough for the day; it was not to be kept overnight. (Exodus 16)<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Each day<\/span> has enough trouble of its own&#8221;<\/em>. Do not worry about tomorrow; trust God for today. (Matthew 6)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Day by day and with each passing moment, strength I find to meet my trials here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">He whose heart is kind beyond all measure, gives unto each day what he deems best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Every day the Lord himself is near me, with a special mercy for each hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">As thy days, thy strength shall be in measure, this the pledge to me he made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">One by one, the days, the moments fleeting, till with Christ the Lord I stand<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is <span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">the day<\/span> the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it! (Psalm 118)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1st Chronicles 23:1 &#8220;When David was old and full of days&#8230;&#8221; This first phrase in today&#8217;s reading got me to\u00a0thinkin&#8217;&#8230;\u00a0 we become old when our lives become &#8220;full of days&#8221;. The perspective of Scripture is not so much that God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/13\/day-by-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}