When is the best day of your life? No, the previous question is not a grammatical mistake. Although most people would ask when “was” the best day of your life, I’m asking when “is.” When we follow Jesus, today IS the best day of our life. The glorious ability to follow Jesus in love and grace means that the delights of today can be beyond anything of our past. Following Jesus produces delight. The beatitudes, statements of Jesus found in Matthew 5:1-12, remind us of this delight from our good fortune of being blessed to follow the Lord. The Greek word makarios that we often translate as blessed means more than we think. It means happy / fortunate. My translation into English would be: being delighted due to good fortune. So, the beatitudes of Jesus would translate into English as: Delighted are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Delighted are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Delighted are the meek, f...