Psalm 143:8 “Cause
me to hear Your loving-kindness in the morning, for in You do I trust;
Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to
You.”
I read lately that this is a
beautiful and meaningful prayer with which to start the day, and one that God
must delight to answer. It is very simple, with two requests and two
declarations, yet it can reach the very heart of God. Because we trust
implicitly in His Word, we hear Him speak through it as we read it at the
beginning of the day. And as we hear Him speak, we rejoice again in His
loving-kindness, especially in saving our souls and guiding our ways. Then we
are emboldened once again to lift up our very souls (our mind. Will and
emotions) to Him (not just our voices!) and ask Him for clear guidance in the
way in which we should walk today.
Psalm 143:10 “Teach
me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your Spirit is
good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.”
The psalmist also prays, and
so should we, for God to teach us. God will “cause us to know the way wherein we should walk” by the Holy Spirit
if we sincerely desire to know and to follow His will and to be led in the
paths of righteousness. He will never lead us, of course, in any path contrary
to His revealed Word in the Holy Scriptures of the Bible. Psalm 119:105 proclaims “Thy
Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path”. But when He is given
all priority in our lives, when we love, study and obey His holy Word, and when
we sincerely call on Him for daily guidance in His will and way, He will surely
answer, because Proverbs 3:6 confirms the “In
all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths”.
1 John 5:14-15 says, “Now
this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything
according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us,
whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him”,
if our heart’s desire is aligned
with God’s heart desire, when our goals are His goals and Lord God’s glory is
our chief end. The Webster’s
dictionary definition of the word “lord” is: A master; a person possessing
supreme power and authority; a ruler; a governor. In scripture, the Supreme
Being; Jehovah God. The word is applied to Christ, and to the Holy Spirit. May your
morning prayer be to the praise the Lord.
Blessings.
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