A Each day Morning Train | Needing God

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Yesterday, in our Navigators Bible Studying Plan, we learn Psalm 90 collectively. Or possibly you’re catching up with the studying nonetheless. That’s fantastic. No drawback there. Whenever you get to it, you’ll see why Psalm 90 is the particular, much-beloved psalm that you just, Pastor John, have referenced in thirty totally different episodes of this podcast already to reply all types of listener questions. Psalm 90 is wealthy. Typically you’ll focus your consideration on verses 12 or 17. As you method eighty years previous, verse 10 looms increasingly in your thoughts.

However no verse in Psalm 90 will get extra mentions from you than verse 14. And that’s simply it. It solely will get mentions from you — transient mentions — normally merely listed within the texts you string collectively in a prayer you name I.O.U.S. (an acrostic), a one-minute prayer that you just pray earlier than you learn the Bible within the morning. You’ve advised us about that prayer in a number of episodes, which you’ll see in that new APJ e-book, if in case you have that. On pages 16 and 17, I put these episodes collectively on that I.O.U.S. acrostic.

So, you usually point out however hardly ever dwell on Psalm 90:14: “Fulfill us within the morning along with your steadfast love, that we might rejoice and be glad all our days.” For Christian Hedonists devoted to the each day self-discipline of in search of our pleasure in God, this textual content is so big. So, draw out ten minutes of insights from what you see on this textual content alone about our each day need for God.

“Fulfill us within the morning along with your steadfast love, that we might rejoice and be glad all our days” (Psalm 90:14). There are few issues, Tony, that I like to do greater than to take a Bible verse like this, a phrase from God — and I need to underline that: it is a phrase from God — after which squeeze it like a sponge that has been dipped within the river of God’s delights, and see what number of cups I can fill. That’s what I like to do. That’s my life.

Typically, a sponge is so huge and so squishy with wonderful reality that it’s a must to squeeze one finish and maintain that after which squeeze one other finish and maintain that. So, I’m going to squeeze this verse 4 instances.

1. “Fulfill us.” I’m going to squeeze that.
2. “Within the morning.” I’m going to squeeze that.
3. “Along with your steadfast love.”
4. “That we might rejoice and be glad all our days.”

So, that’s the plan.

‘Fulfill Us’

“Fulfill us.” Squeeze that finish. It is a God-inspired prayer to God. That’s what the Psalms are. Because of this it’s God’s will for his kids, for us, to expertise satisfaction. It’s God’s will that Christians dwell with hearts which are deeply content material and happy. He doesn’t will that our hearts be frequently stressed or fearful or joyless.

“It’s God’s will that Christians dwell with hearts which are deeply content material and happy.”

God’s will for us is that we be capable to say with the apostle Paul, with full authenticity, “I’ve discovered in no matter state of affairs I’m to be content material” (Philippians 4:11) — that’s, to be happy, to take pleasure in peace, contentment, confidence, gladness, pleasure. And spot that he’s not equating satisfaction with nice circumstances. They might be nice, and so they could also be devastating. God’s will is that we be happy. The remainder of this psalm is fairly devastating.

And don’t miss that it is a prayer, which implies it’s a battle. If it got here naturally, we might not have to cry out for satisfaction. It is a reward from God. It’s not one thing we will make occur with meals or caffeine or medication or intercourse or wealth or well being or friendships or household.

‘Within the Morning’

So, the query, then, is, Properly, what sort of satisfaction is it? What’s the precise supply of the satisfaction? And earlier than I deal with that — as a result of he does reply that — he says one different factor first. So, quantity two, squeeze the sponge once more: “within the morning.” “Fulfill us within the morning.” Why does he say that — “within the morning”? As a result of the morning is after we face the day.

In keeping with this psalm, our days are crammed with toil and hassle (Psalm 90:10). We’re like grass that’s renewed within the morning after which within the night fades away (Psalm 90:5–6). We’re about to stroll into a brand new day and expertise the results of sin on this world, the bounds of our personal finiteness, the opposition of evil folks, the futility of the fallen world system. That’s what the day goes to convey as we get away from bed and go to our kneeling bench and cry out to God.

So, what will we cry out for within the morning, dealing with that sort of day? We cry out within the face of sin and finiteness and opposition and futility. We cry out for satisfaction. We don’t anticipate all of the circumstances to alter; it’s simply the fallen world we dwell in. We received’t be of any good to anyone — as George Müller taught us — if all of us share within the moaning and the groaning of this sinful and damaged world. What good is it so as to add to the world extra of our personal moaning and groaning?

God’s will is that we’d be happy within the face of all the difficulty each new day will convey, which now brings us to the third squeezing of the sponge.

‘With Your Steadfast Love’

The place does the satisfaction come from amidst all this hassle? And the reply given is that this: “along with your steadfast love.” “Fulfill us within the morning along with your steadfast love.”

So, once you stand up within the morning, and also you see earlier than you a day of hassle and issues — issues upon issues that you just can not clear up — and you’re feeling weak and sick, and the stuff you thought had been going to convey you some happiness have all crumbled, the place do you search for satisfaction?

And Moses’s (it is a psalm of Moses, by the way in which) reply was, “I look to the love of God for me.” Isn’t that incredible? “God loves me,” Moses says. “God selected me earlier than the inspiration of the world,” we Christians say, “to be his treasured possession. God gave me existence. God despatched his Son and paid for the failures that I’ve dedicated and offenses towards him. God opened my eyes to see the value and greatness and fantastic thing about Christ. God guarantees to be my treasure. God guarantees to make all the pieces, together with all my troubles and issues, work collectively for my everlasting pleasure. God loves me.”

That’s the supply of his satisfaction: his steadfast love. And we pray for the flexibility to style it. That’s what he’s asking. “Fulfill me in that. Assist me take pleasure in that. Assist me be happy in that each morning,” as a result of his mercies are new each morning.

‘That We Might Rejoice’

And now comes the fourth a part of the sponge to squeeze — specifically, “that we might rejoice and be glad all our days.” “Fulfill us within the morning along with your steadfast love, that we might rejoice and be glad all our days.”

“God’s will is that we’d be happy within the face of all the difficulty each new day will convey.”

So, with the phrases rejoice and be glad, he underlines the emotional richness of the phrase satisfaction. God is telling us to ask him to make us happy, to make us glad, to make us glad, to make us rejoice it doesn’t matter what. And the wonderful factor is that he says “all our days” — not simply sunny days, glad days, however all our days. The rationale it’s wonderful is as a result of, within the first 13 verses of this psalm, our days are being swept away like a flood. We’re returning to the mud. We’re fading and withering like grass. We move away like a sigh. All our days are filled with toil and hassle. These are phrases from this very psalm.

And but now Moses prays, “God, do your wonderful, inside, miracle work of satisfying us along with your love, in order that in all these days — all these horrible days, together with the final one — brief or lengthy, whether or not the times final a very long time or whether or not they get blown away in a single day, we would rejoice and be glad.”

Psalm 90:14 is an excellent phrase of God to his kids within the midst of their troubles on this actual world. And I pray that you just and I, Tony, and all of our listeners would grasp it and wring out of it each cup of blessing that we want.