Make Today the Very Best Day of Your Life

“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalm 118:24 ESV).

What if you got up every day and said, “I’m going to make today the very best day of my life!” That’s what a very successful restaurateur named Randy would say when anyone asked how he was doing. At first, people would be taken aback by it, wondering if he was serious. His positive outlook seemed fake or inauthentic to others, but for Randy, it was real. Even if he didn’t feel it, he practiced saying it. Then he started believing it, leading him to live it out. It was contagious. Randy always set the tone.

Will Guidara, author of Unreasonable Hospitality, says, “Let your energy impact the people you’re talking to, as opposed to the other way around.”

When Pastor Joel Osteen gets up every morning, the first thing that comes out of his mouth as he jumps out of bed is, “It’s going to be a great day.” What is he doing? He’s setting the tone for his day rather than letting the enemy or someone else set it for him.

Looking at today’s Scripture, we see David setting the tone in Psalm 118. He sets the tone by acknowledging who will have control over his day. When you wake up in the morning, who is setting the tone? Your family, the TV, a situation, your phone? Or is it you and God?

I read how the author John Maxwell’s friend approached every day. His friend calculated that if the average person lives for 75 years, multiplied by 52 weeks in a year, they will have 3,900 Saturdays in their lifetime. He said, “It took me until I was 55 years old to think about all this in any detail, and by that time, I had lived through over 2,800 Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to be 75, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy.” He went on to explain that he bought 1,000 marbles and put them in a clear plastic container in his favorite work area at home. “Every Saturday since then,” he said, “I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life. There’s nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.” Then the gentleman finished, “Now let me tell you one last thought before I sign off and take my lovely wife out to breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure if I make it to next Saturday, I have been given a little extra time.”

Maybe we can’t choose how much time we get, but we can determine what we will do with it. Let’s set the tone for today and make this day the very best day of our lives.

Pray this: Dear God, like David, I want to set the tone for my day. This is the day the Lord has made; I will rejoice and be glad in it. I pray that You will help me make every day the very best day of my life. Amen (So be it).

Declare this: I will try to make today the very best day of my life. I will focus on God and what He can do. Every day, I will make God a priority and allow Him to make it happen. It’s going to be a great day! I receive it by faith. I am setting the tone for my day and my future!

Win for today: Start the day by saying, “It’s going to be a great day!” Then, throughout the day, when people ask you how you are doing, say, “I’m just trying to make today the very best day of my life.” See how it changes your day.