Its alwasy today....

Hebrew 3:13-14 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first."

To Encourage:
to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence:
to stimulate by assistance, approval, etc.:
to promote, advance, or foster:

What does it mean to encourage and what does it mean to people today? This is a question that I think comes up in every ones mind. We all strive to be encouraging and desire to be encouraged, but what does it really mean? In Hebrews is says to encourage daily, as long as it is today, which by the way, is everyday! When you start to think about it that can be a really hard task. We all have our off days when we are just not feeling like encouraging anyone. But when you look at the next part of the verse it says, "so that none of you may be hardened by sins deceitfulness." When you look at it that way it should maybe change the importance of how much it means to encourage someone daily! It should spur us on, to protect our brothers and sisters from deceit. It should not be based on weather or not we feel like encouraging, it should be based on the love that we have for one another as Christians! We should desire the best for our brothers and sisters in Christ! By inspiring or helping or promoting our brothers and sisters daily we are protecting them from the effects of sin.
If you were to think about a day of no encouragement I think that your mind would automatically go to all of the 'bad' things that happened in your day. Putting your mind back on these things may open your mind to sin and thoughts that are overall not pleasing to God. We should be daily fixing our thoughts on Jesus, and by doing this it should make the process of encouraging others much easier. How much better would your day be if it was started out with an encouraging word from a friend, you would spend the rest of the day remembering that rather than opening your mind to other things.
Over all I want to push you to strive to be encouraging. I think of the Coke a cola commercial where one guy does a nice thing and someone else catches him and that nice thing is followed by anther nice thing, it can become a cycle. I hope that by encouraging one person today, that it will encourage that person to lift up their brothers and sisters.
The last part of the verse says, "We have come to share in Christ, if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first." We belong to Christ, or share in Him. By encouraging and being encouraged it will help us to stand firm in what we believe about belonging to Christ. We are confident in Christ and encouragement will bring us back to the basics of what we believe.
Keep Seeking Him!