THE VERSE
Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.~Psalm 90:14
THE THOUGHT
If you want to be glad today, start this morning with this prayer. “Satisfy me in the morning with your steadfast love!” The secret to sacrifice-sustaining, love-enabling, risk-taking rejoicing is a deep and abiding satisfaction in the Savior. And that’s the kind of rejoicing that we want to be cultivating—not a joy for our own sake, but a gladness in the goodness of God that empowers our service and overflows in generosity to those around us.We must pray for this! Satisfaction in God does not come naturally to the human heart. We are much more quickly drawn to trinkets and trivialities, to TV and retirement accounts and new cars, than we are to the deep well of glory that our hearts were created to see and savor and share. We must diligently pray for the Spirit to open our eyes to the incalculable wealth of knowing Christ, so that we will no longer be tempted to put our satisfaction in our moth-eaten, rusting, uninsured treasures on earth.
THE PRAYER
Holy Spirit, Open the eyes of my heart so that I can know the hope that You’ve called me to, the riches of my glorious inheritance in Christ Jesus, and the immeasurable greatness of Your power reserved for those who believe. Satisfy me in the morning with Your steadfast love, so that I may rejoice and be glad and make much of You for all my days.EXTENDED READING
Psalm 63:1-5Luke 12:29-34
Ephesians 1:16-19
Philippians 3:7-11
THE QUOTE
"How difficult it is to be honest, to accept that I am unacceptable, to renounce self-justification, to give up the pretense that my prayers, spiritual insight, tithing, and successes in ministry have made me pleasing to God! No antecedent beauty enamors me in His eyes. I am lovable only because He loves me." ~Brennan Manning
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