Taking Nothing for Granted.  By Sara Jellsey.

A few weeks ago, Friday, February 13^th, life came to an abrupt halt, and I waited in agony to hear my husband’s voice. There was a catastrophic event at his work, and I did not know if he was alive … if he was injured … if he had been washed down the mountain …

Waiting was heartbreaking and terrifying. I almost don’t have words to describe how the Lord met me as I rage-cleaned, sobbing in my kitchen. I don’t know what else to call it, but I just had to be moving and doing something, I couldn’t sit and wait.

I dialed and dialed his number … straight to voicemail. Hours seemed like forever. I kept praying and cleaning and crying and begging the Lord to bring them all home.

I declared that even if He didn’t, even if my husband was injured, or even lost, that God was still good. Repeatedly I exclaimed, “I trust you, Lord!”

I watched the live footage on the news hoping for a glimpse of him. Then, he called.  He couldn’t really talk long, but he was alive, he was okay, and he would be coming home to me. I hung up that call, and dropped to my knees in my kitchen, tears of joy, exaltation of praise bursting out of me!

Psalm 56:3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

I sat on my kitchen floor and was immediately inundated with all the times I let being tired, being busy, or scrolling on my phone get in the way of being present with Him. How many evenings, days, moments had I taken for granted? I was prompted to repent before the Lord right there in a sobbing mess on my kitchen floor, and yet, I was filled with gladness and freedom.

Repentance is a free-ing thing. I didn’t allow the lies of condemnation, criticism or judgement to enter my mind, heart or soul. I simply sought forgiveness. I didn’t make a vow or an agreement that I would never do that again. I simply asked the Lord to remind me when I get complacent, when I get tired, when I get busy, to not let me take it for granted that tomorrow is not promised.

Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

It is so easy to just let the minutes, the hours, the days, the weeks, the months, the years to just pass by. Before we know it, we aren’t in our 20s anymore, or our 30s or our 40s.

Make each day matter, because each day matters to the God who created the heavens and the earth, the animals, the oceans, the mountains, the plants and every living thing. He is the God who created you and each day of your life matters to Him.

Don’t take today for granted, and don’t worry about tomorrow; just take life one day at a time and make it matter.

Matthew 6:34 says, “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”