One More Day
Dear Lord, please give me one more day to experience the joys of life: The beauties
of the trees, rivers, and sky; The pleasures of friendships, recreation, and
children; The joy of laughter, being with those I love, and resting after a
long day’s work. Each day is a gift from you that brings beauties beyond
measure.
I ask for just one more day, Lord, to grow in my relationships with others.
An opportunity to learn about and practice your unselfish love, give me one
more day to help those I love to grow closer to you, to teach my children and
show them what it means to serve you, to help them grow in their dedication
to you. A day to tell my closest friends about what really matters in life.
My request, Father, is just one more day to fight. To wield the sword, to take
up your armor and destroy the work of Satan. Just one more day to achieve the
peace that comes from your victory in my life. Just one more day to show the
world your love and grace in my life. Another day to do my small part in this
colossal spiritual battle.
Give me, Father, just one more day to make an impression on others about my
values, my interests, my goals. One more day to show them that you are real
and that you are everything to me. Give me a day so they might see you in the
life I live, that they too might want to serve you.
Just one more day to reflect… to remember the good and the bad that has
occurred in my life… to remember and learn from my achievements and failures…
to gain wisdom from what you have taught me in my life.
One more day to overcome my sin, to take the steps necessary to be more like
you. To see sin for what it really is. To develop a hatred for it, a disgust.
One more day to make right the damage my sin has caused and to forgive the sins
of others.
Father, if it is your will, I ask for one more day to encourage the good work
in your kingdom. To edify my brothers and sisters in the work they do. One more
day to show patience and to lend a helping hand to those who are struggling
in their battle with Satan. Father, just one more day so I can offer the love
you have shown to me.
Just one more day in honor of you. If today does not bring joy or what I desire,
if it does not bring my gain or my advancement. If, instead, it brings sorrow,
pain, suffering, or loss… help me to love you even more. Just one more
day where I can prove to you that I serve you not because of what I get out
of the day but because I love you.
Father, if you grant me one more day, help me not to get lost in it. Help me
to remember what is most important. Help me to see eternity.
Dear Lord, most of all, help me to know that I may not have just one more day.
If I am not able to enjoy the pleasures of this life for another day, or my
family, or to work another day, or influence others, or learn another lesson
of life, help me to know that I need to be ready for that day of eternity: the
day of victory, the day of judgment. Help me to live today with this realization.
Thank you, Lord.
by Olin Hudson
(Olin Hudson was a preacher in Abilene Texas. This was written a few days before
he was killed in an auto accident.)
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