I enjoy the mornings during the summer. Most summers I sleep late and stay up till the wee hours of the morning. This summer I haven't done that as much. I've swam with the swim team most days to get stronger as I train for the marathon. My favorite time of the summer though is July. The tour de france comes to a t.v. near you for an exciting 23 days/stages, and this year has not been a stranger to excitement. So satisfy us in the morning, my morning fix is the tour during the month of July, but this is not why I write all this today. Oh and by the way, I am putting a disclaimer out there if there are misspelled words or bad grammar, I'm a math teacher, not english. :)
I wanted to look at a whole passage this afternoon out of Psalm 90. I had memorized Psalm 90:14 during this past school year because I needed the Lord to focus me in the morning and to bring me joy. Second semester is always a little intense with TAKS. YEA! Read the following passage and think about a few questions, and I'm going to give you a little of my own commentary as well. :)
"Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love,
that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
for as many years as we have seen trouble.
May your deeds be shown to your servants,
your splendor to their children.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us;
establish the work of our hands for us - yes, establish the work of our hands."
Psalm 90:14-17
Ok so you need to know a couple of things first before we start discussing the passage. The passage is written by Moses, and if you bother to look at the verses preceding, Moses is telling the reader how people are dying in the dessert, how the Lord is upset with them. (it is my assumption that possibly this was after Israel sent spies in right outside the promised land and got scared, didn't BELIEVE God to be the God He said He was and spent another 40 years in the dessert) Back to the scripture at hand. Moses was asking in verse 12 to give them wisdom, and I ask you today: How often is it that you realize instead of continuing on whatever path you're on that you keep pressing through, when do you finally stop and ask for the Lords wisdom? When do you realize the Greatness of our God, find joy in Him and head towards the promised land that He's promised us all? Verse 14 says, "Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days." Moses realized that he and the Israelites needed God's mercy every morning, His love that no matter what they did God would still love them. How often do we translate how people treat us on this earth to how God treats us? We equate the fact that people will turn their backs on friendship if they don't like something we do to the Lord. We think that He will do the same. Time and time again this is proven incorrect in scripture. If he really wanted to do that He would have turned his back on David when he committed adultery and killed a man in cold blood to cover it up or when Adam and Eve first sinned against Him and they could no longer walk with Him. There were so many opportunities in scripture if God was going to act like man he could have, but that is NOT his nature.
When I first started memorizing the scripture, I needed to find joy in the situation I was in. I needed to realize that God has placed me in my job not just for it to be a job, but to find joy in where He had placed me, which by the way I'm still working on however I am finding more joy in Him. It amazes me how when we seek wisdom from the Lord as Moses did, we may not be happy with the situation still, but we do find a hope and a joy to continue on the path the Lord has placed us. I pray that as the many days that have been frustrating that I will like the Israelites experience that many days of joy as will you. Until later.....
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