You Mean This One?

This is the day

that Lord Jehovah has made;

come, we will leap for joy and rejoice in him!

— Psalm 118:24, Aramaic Bible in Plain English

Did that translation catch you off guard, too?

Sure did me.

I’m much more accustomed to “This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it,” which I actually can’t read even write or read without singing the song someone taught me a long time ago. That’s actually the English Standard Version, in fact.

Maybe you’re used to the King James Version, which reads, “This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.”

Same verse, of course. But tweaked a little differently.

We’ll get back to this slightly different — okay, maybe it’s very different — version and what all’s so significant about it, I promise.

For now, let’s focus on “This is the day.”

Right now.

“This is.”

It really is.

And it just is.

What are you going to do with this astonishing gift of another day that so many have already been denied?