on abiding

This was in my reading this morning before church. The words are so simple, yet so beautiful. I had to share. : )

As its light opens on your waking eyes, accept it in these terms: A day, just one day only, but still a day, given to abide and grow up in Jesus Christ. Whether it be a day of health or sickness, joy or sorrow, rest or work, of struggle or victory, let the chief thought with which you receive it in the morning thanksgiving be this: “This is the day that the Father has given; in it I may, I must, become more closely united with Jesus.”

-Andrew Murray from Abide in Christ