Share today

I went to my fishing club meeting last night with a friend of mine whom I have not seen in several months. We decided to have some dinner before the meeting and as we had dinner he told me that he had been going through an extremely tough and emotional period of his life. He related to me that through it all he has been reading Words for the Day and he cannot tell me how many times that whatever I wrote about on a certain day was “exactly” what he needed to hear that day and addressed the very problem that he was experiencing. He went on to say that it particularly helped him through the Christmas season and the loneliness that he was enduring during that period of time. He thanked me and I told him that it was my pleasure and that I would pray for him.

I receive e-mails from folks every single day that are similar in nature. (I wonder how many might benefit occasionally and never tell me about it.) I hope there are many, but if it is just one person then it is well worth the effort it requires to do it. It is extremely heart-warming to me to get these notes and to know that I had a small part in helping someone, even those whom I have never met and never will.

I began writing Words for the Day way back in the year 2000. I got into the habit every morning before work of studying my Bible and then engaging in some one on one prayer time with my Father in heaven. I used this time to prepare myself spiritually for the day ahead of me and to guide me through the snares and pitfalls of life. Sometimes my spiritual bliss did not last long, but it was always refreshed the following morning.

One morning I could not get off my mind all of those within our company who might not read the Bible regularly, or even worse those who did not even own a Bible or ever attend church. I knew from the many terrible mistakes that I made in my early life just how impossible it is to try and make it alone without God’s word to guide me daily. I decided then and there, what the heck, I will start sharing it and anyone in our company who is interested is welcome to share in what I am learning and if not, no harm no foul. Later others outside of our company discovered it and it even expanded and is read on an international basis every day.

Through the many years that I have been writing it I have experienced and had to deal with an entire gamut of life events. I have known grief and tragedy in my life, not the least of which was the suicide of my beloved brother Jim. I have known tremendous happiness such as growing my family and business. I have been up and I have been down. I have laughed and I have cried. I have enjoyed enormous success and enormous failures. I have been tempted and succeeded and tempted and failed. I have had people let me down and I have let people down. I have forgiven and I have condemned. Each day brings something different and I write about whatever is going on in my life or around me. It is not choreographed and consists of whatever God allows to come to my mind each morning. Always I use God’s word the Bible to try and make sense out of it and to help guide me and lead me in the direction in which I need to go. Often God is “killing two birds with one stone” and leading others who are experiencing similar trials right along with me through WFTD.

We all fight our way through life and experience the foregoing trials, tribulations, triumphs, victories, and abject failures. Through it all I have maintained my faith in God. I see God working through this imperfect resource to comfort His children. I hope and pray that it touches your life often.

In that vein I would like to ask you a favor. If you feel WFTD is beneficial to you, then please consider that just maybe someone that you know might benefit too. It is extremely easy to subscribe or sign up a friend. The instructions are right on the bottom of this message or go to my website at Wordsfortheday.org and click the subscribe button. If that proves too tedious then simply forward the next one that you like to someone that you know and care about. Incidentally it is just as easy to unsubscribe should anyone grow tired of it or dislike it.

God calls upon us to witness to others. I try to do that through WFTD. Perhaps you do not desire or have the time to start a ministry like WFTD, but that does not mean that you cannot share in mine. I know that people have come to know the Lord through it because people have written to me and told me so. I would ask you to try to sign up somebody today while you are thinking about it. You never know what might develop from your one caring act including even someone accepting Jesus as their personal Savior. God sees everything that we do and one day we must give an account. This small act of sharing WFTD may not make a big difference in the big of scheme of things, but on the other hand it just may not hurt anything either to have almighty God see you send this to someone whom you care about.

Hebrews 4:13
And there is no creature hidden
from His sight, but all things are
naked and open to the eyes of Him
to whom we must give account.