One Day at a Time

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1. One Day at a Time

One Day at a Time

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
O Lord, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee.
Be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
My grace is sufficient for thee.
I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you
ONE DAY at a time, with its failures and fears,
With its hurts and mistakes, with its weakness and tears,
With its portion of pain and its burden of care;
One day at a time we must meet and must bear.
One day at a time to be patient and strong;
To be calm under trial and sweet under wrong;
Then its toiling shall pass and its sorrow shall cease;
It shall darken and die, and the night shall bring peace.
One day at a time but the day is so long,
And the heart is not brave, and the soul is not strong,
O Thou merciful Christ, be Thou near all the way;
Give courage and patience and strength for the day.
Swift cometh His answer, so clear and so sweet;
"Yea, I will be with thee; thy troubles to meet;
I will not forget thee, nor fail thee, nor grieve;
I will not forsake thee; I never will leave."
Not yesterday's load we are called on to bear,
Nor the morrow's uncertain and shadowy care;
Why should we look forward or back with dismay?
Our needs, as our mercies, are but for the day.
One day at a time, and the day is His day;
He hath numbered its hours, though they haste or delay.
His grace is sufficient, we walk not alone;
As the day, so the strength that He giveth His own.
-ANNIE JOHNSON FLINT
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