Some people say that the halcyon days of youth are the best days of our lives.  I've heard more than once that college is supposed to be the best time in life.  (That one's utterly and completely lost on me.)  Some more experienced couples have said that the first years of marriage when you don't have two nickels to rub together but you have each other are the best times in life.  Some say that when they were young and hungry, fighting to get somewhere were the days when they felt the most "alive."  Once, when I was in my mid-twenties, I met a thirty-something who told me that he had played high school baseball, and that those were the best days of his life.  With a twinge of regret in his smile he told me to make times like that last as long as I could.  I still look back on that man, who I met once for a few minutes and have never run across again, and feel sorry for him. Like every other mystery that the heart of man has sought out, the answer lies with the Lord, and He is ready to reveal His thoughts to those who love Him.  Amos 4:13 says "He who forms mountains and creates the wind and declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness and treads on the high places of the earth, the Lord God of hosts is His name."  Gentlemen, "Cease striving and know that [He is] God; [He] will be exalted among the nations, [He] will be exalted in the earth." (Psalms 46:10).  Walk out on your own, look to the Lord and cease struggling with the voices of this world.

Hebrews 3:13 urges us to "encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called 'Today'."  We live in days of grace.  We live in a time that is quickly drawing to a close, when God extends His grace and mercy to the dying world.  And, what always amazes me is that He extends His grace and mercy through us.  We see blissful days, exciting days and momentous days.  We also see dark days, days marred in our memories by overwhelming grief and days of disappointment.  But, for us who know the Lord to seek and live for our best days is to miss what God would have for us today, because we would be asking the wrong question.  As long as it is still called today, my heart must be set upon what the heart of God is set upon.  What does He want for me today?  Does He want me to try to make it the best day of my life?  Or, does He want me to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness?  We can trust Him with our every day, knowing that He has promised the best days  for those who trust Him.

"I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them.  There's no future in it."  -Sparky Anderson