Every day on the way to school, I make Mate teach me a new Hungarian word. Early on I learned to say ‘great day’, noit-sa-roo nop. So now every time he gets out of the car at school I tell him to have a noit-sa-roo nop and that always makes him turn back to me and smile- mostly because of my poor pronunciation I am sure.
Great day. I had them in spades this past weekend. On Friday my two brand-spanking-new grandboys arrived. Logan and Luke had their very first great day November 6th. Of course they define great day as a warm blanket, a good nap, warm milk, and constant attention which now that I think about it is the same description my dad now uses for a great day.
Then on Saturday, Mate and I went out to the farm to watch the corn harvest. Mate rode on the combine for a few trips and had a great time. It was an absolutely beautiful day, and watching the harvest in action with my dad and Mate was great fun. Later that afternoon Mate and I drove to Lincoln to watch Nebraska whoop Oklahoma. Mate was amazed at the size of the stadium, the number of people, the band, the crowd noise level and the game itself. So as you can see, Saturday was a full day, a great day!
And maybe all this sounds right, that ‘great days’ are eventful, fun and exciting- it did to me as I was writing it anyway. But then I wondered what really and truly defines a ‘great day’. If a ‘great day’ is just a busy or fun day then I’d have to say it’s just like eating Chinese food, filling and satisfying for only the shortest of times. There has to be more to a ‘great day’ doesn’t there?
As I thought about it, I concluded the Bible tells us every day is a ‘noit-sa-roo nop’, a ‘great day’. Psalm 118:24 shouts ‘This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it’. A God-made day is a great day by definition. He gifts us with a sunrise every morning and the canvas of another 24 hours to draw on and play in. Each day comes with God’s richest blessings of love and joy and mercy and grace. Could it be that any day is not a great day?
Even if every day is a great day, I had to think about a few great days that stand out in time. Like think about our world’s very first day. What a sunrise that must have been- and everything still had that new, just out of the box smell. Great day. Then the great days among great days really started coming to me- like Christmas and Easter, Passover and Pentecost, and really any day of the 33 years Jesus was kicking up dust. All great days among great days don’t you think?
I know at least a couple more standout great days are in our future starting with today. Let’s rejoice and be glad in it, in today, and use it for His glory. And then there will be one final, one great, one last,end-all, noit-sa-roo nop. This is the eternal great day among all great days. Covered by Jesus blood and righteousness can’t you already smell our brand new, just out of the box, eternity? Till this last great day arrives, let’s rejoice and be glad to take our noit-sa-roo nops one great day at a time.
Blest Regards,
kp
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