"God Made My Day" is one anonymous Christian's response to the infamous line of Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry character who says,"Go ahead, make my day," as he holds a gun on a thug and dares him to make a move. The implication is that Harry Callahan's day would be made if he were given the opportunity by a false move by his antagonist to mete out his rough version of justice by wasting the guy, as the language in these movies goes.

Over against this cynical view of life is this affirmation on a bumper sticker that some people have placed on their cars, "God Made My Day." And what I would like us to do this morning is to try to understand this phrase and to see in what sense can we affirm that God made our day.

We can say that God made our day in the sense that God creates all days. That …