Today Is The Day!

There is a special time, it is called today. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not here. Today is Now and Now is the Time of Salvation:

1As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
2For he says,
“In the time of my favor I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”^[a]
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

2 Corinthians 6:1-2 NIV

The present is not the past nor the future. It is now, it is real, we are in it. Just as the Past is what was before now, just as the Future is what will be after, the Present is Today, it is Now, and Now is the Time of Salvation.

Consider the following:

Exposition of Psalm 95: Hearing God’s Word in Faith

3:7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,

“Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks!

3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.

3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, and they saw my works for forty years.

3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”

3:12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God. 3:13 But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception. 3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end. 3:15 As it says, “Oh, that today you would listen as he speaks! Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” 3:16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? 3:17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 3:19 So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

God’s Promised Rest

4:1 Therefore we must be wary¹ that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it. 4:2 For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in² with those who heard it in faith.³ 4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’”⁴ And yet God’s works⁵ were accomplished from the foundation of the world. 4:4 For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”⁶ 4:5 but to repeat the text cited earlier:⁷ “They will never enter my rest!” 4:6 Therefore it remains for some to enter it, yet those to whom it was previously proclaimed did not enter because of disobedience. 4:7 So God⁸ again ordains a certain day, “Today,” speaking through David⁹ after so long a time, as in the words quoted before,¹⁰ “O, that today you would listen as he speaks!¹¹ Do not harden your hearts.” 4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God¹² would not have spoken afterward about another day. 4:9 Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God. 4:10 For the one who enters God’s¹³ rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works. 4:11 Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience. 4:12 For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the point of dividing soul from spirit, and joints from marrow; it is able to judge the desires and thoughts of the heart. 4:13 And no creature is hidden from God,¹⁴ but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Hebrews 3:12-4:14 NET

The present is not the past nor the future. It is now, it is real, we are in it. Just as the Past is what was before now, just as the Future is what will be after, the Present is Today, it is Now, and Now is the Time of Salvation. Believe and accept it, and once you have follow the Way!

Amen.

Originally posted 2007-08-31 on http://amencomelordjesus.com/blog