Sunday, January 10, 2016

Psalm 63

O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water. v.1


Read chapter 63
What's the first thing you do in the morning?  What routine do you have when you wake up?  What's your first thoughts of the day?  Is it planning out your day? Is it regret of what happened yesterday?  Is it wanting to watch the next episode of a TV series?  Is it something consuming your mind all day like food, a relationship, work, money, etc?  We wake up craving something with our minds and our body, but what are we really satisfying that craving with?
We're all thirsty and we're all hungry. But we try to satisfy our thirst and hunger in all the wrong things and places. Our thirst really is for God. He is the one we're longing for.  David describes for us where he is when he wrote this psalm. He's in the wilderness, in a dry place where there is no water. But instead of focusing on the dryness and what he doesn't have, he looks heavenward, and he finds something very rich that he does have--the lovingkindness of God. He says, Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is better than life (v.3). In other words, if I perish out here in this wilderness, I have something that is more enduring than life itself"(Nancy DeMoss, ReviveOurHearts.com). 
Start your day off with the Lord EARLY.  Find your satisfaction in Him to fill your cravings throughout the day that you may not feed it with things that don't satisfy.  This doesn't mean you have to wake up before the sun rises (although that's my favorite), but choose how you're going to start your day no matter what time you wake up.

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