A Thought for the Day – 002 – Lovingkindness (grace)
Life
is hard, thus we should keep looking up! Our eyes pointed upward are just not
enough since it is our soul that pants for God like the deer for cool water.
Hope for your soul is confidence in God; I like Psalm 42:8 – The LORD will
command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be
with me – a prayer to God for my life.
Comments and challenges
It really does not
matter what song He sings to us. Do you ever wake up at night singing a hymn or
hearing a gospel tune? I truly hope you do! One of the most important aspects
of living in Christ is the knowledge of pleasantness in the soul during the
night and knowing that His grace will be sufficient for the coming day. Now
think about it! Psalm 42: 8 does not say that God will lullaby you first in the
night so that the day following will provide sufficient grace.
The thoughts
contemplated by the sons of Korah here in Psalm 42 are focused on the troubles
we all face in life. Daily we can be cast down and sometimes it can be the
simplest of things that cause the soul to pant. For example, have you ever
heard something from a stranger that stirred up worry in heart? Yes of course
you have, like a radio station warning of a traffic tie up between you and
work.
Maybe it is some
evil disease that clings to or within our body, we bath it in medical lotions
and potions or we seek medical remedies that often make us more ill than that
of the disease. So life is hard to deal with alone and I say alone because the
people who care for us can only reach the physical attributes of our
surroundings; you know those creature comforts are needed but these only go so
far.
“As the deer pants
for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirst for God,
for the living God! When shall I come and appear before God? Psalm 42:1-2” we
all have trouble in this world and far too many of us do not know how to cry
out in our soul to God. Yes tears are the food in our day and night during
those serious trials of living and I have heard people say as you have. “You
know God… ask Him!”
In fact; the day I heard
the news that my daughter was dying of Leukemia, I asked the captain of the
submarine I was on (he was a Jew and often quoted scripture from the Old
Testament in his message traffic to other subs) I asked him why? Why captain is
this happening? His reply in comforting words… “You know God; ask Him yourself
as He is the only one who can give the right answer”. Yes, he was right, only
God can reach the soul within you.
So, here is the
point! In order to wake up during the night or in the morning with songs of
praise and lovingkindness filling your mind, you must have gone to bed at peace
with God the night before. Our soul has only one purpose and that purpose is to
return to the God who created it. The soul hopes for eternity, while our flesh
hopes for a temporal moment in time. The soul is at peace with God when we are
a peace knowing that God is in control.
Does your
countenance reflect godliness when people see you? It will if you let God sing to
you during the night season since godliness is a reflection of what is in the
soul and not an afterthought of the flesh. You know when God explained to Mary
that she would conceive the Son of God in her womb by the overshadowing of the
Holy Spirit, she heard this news from God through the angel Gabriel. And yes
there were troubling thoughts leading up to the day when she visited Elizabeth;
but notice the song she sang.
Luke 1:46-55 – My soul
magnifies the LORD, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior… now for the
sake of time I need to move on, but in your own time let your soul magnify the
LORD today and let your spirit rejoice in Him… He has done great things for you
in the midst of a troubling moment, and His mercy is on those who fear Him. Every
generation since the beginning of time, testifies to this truth and there is
nothing that this world can throw at you that is outside of God’s Will for you.
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