Sunday 13 May 2012

Sunday Reading: Psalm 5:1-8

Key Verse: Psalm 5:3
3  My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

Devotion:
It is a while since I spent a week in the Psalms – so here goes! I thought it appropriate that we should start with a Psalm that David wrote lifting up the righteous through prayer to our God in Heaven; not so that I have someone to call wicked by any means but because we know that we are righteous through what Jesus Christ has done for us. So lifting up our prayers through this Psalm should be where we start for if we do not start each and every day in prayer, then we are missing the most important thing of the day. Each of our days should start in prayer followed by a hearty meal in God’s Word; forget about the ‘full English’ breakfast because it cannot reach the parts that God’s Word can and does!

When we lift up our prayers to God we must be doing so with a cheerful outlook because we should be doing so with the knowledge that He is our God who answers prayers! We lift them up to a God who abhors evil and deceitfulness, who sees right through us and knows our every thought. How can we not know that He does mean us good? How can we not know that He wants the best for us? How can we not know that He loves us so? He has already done so much for mankind using the Jews as an example for us and allowing His precious Son to come and display that love in no uncertain terms.

When we do come forward to God we know that He is the one who will have mercy on us, not just because of His amazing love for us, but because Christ has requested that God the Father have mercy on us just because we acknowledged Jesus as our Lord and Saviour and asked Him to forgive us of our sins.

If we are willing to come forward in fear of The Lord then He is willing to stand by us and lift us up to God the Father. We may be surrounded by people who can do many things to us and we may live in fear of them destroying our physical bodies or even mentally scaring us through the evil they try to bring down on us; but we can always know for a certainty that we have Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour who has already paid for anything that we do so that we will be presented as righteous before our God in Heaven. I wake up with a smile each day just knowing that I have a Saviour!

Points to Ponder:
How do you start your day?

How much of your day do you dedicate to God?