Thursday, August 17,2017

 
 
 
Devotional for Saturday, August 19, 2017
 
“His Lovingkindness Is Toward Us!”
 
 
 
Lovingkindess and Song of the Lord
 
By Dona Hake
 
Yesterday I exhorted you to never cease giving praise to  our Lord.   Today let us look at another wonderful thing to give Him praise for, and that is His tender lovingkindness.  I love this scripture from Psalm 42:8 that says our Lord commands His lovingkindess toward us in the daytime and in the night His song shall be with us!    Let us meditate upon how we end our long days.    Many times are days are so full of demands and activity.   We go from one task to another, and we need to always be mindful that we are in the moment with our Lord.   If things are going good…praise Him.   If things are not going good…again I say, praise Him!    Pray often and make it a habit to continually cast the smallest of cares at His feet.   If you do not, you will end your day weary and burdened.  
 
If you go to bed with a mind full of anxious thoughts and worries, you will most definitely awaken with those thoughts.   More than likely they will be even greater and magnified. The Lord does not want us to greet our day with the thoughts of yesterday nor the worries about our tomorrows.  It is not in His plan that we carry the burdens of life for His desire is to give us His rest.   He desires that we start each day afresh and new looking toward Heaven expecting new mercies and His wonderful grace.   We should awaken with great expectancy in our hearts of what He wants to do as we serve Him.   I love how the Psalmist asks the Lord to cause him to hear of his Lord’s lovingkindness first thing in the morning.   I will share with you this wonderful scripture which happens to be the first Bible verse I ever memorized.
 

Psalm 143:8 (AMP)

“Cause me to hear Your loving-kindness in the morning,

for on You do I lean and in You do I trust.

Cause me to know the way wherein

I should walk, for I lift up my inner self to You.”
 
Our Lord desires that we cast each and every care upon Him for He cares for us.   I encourage your heart to hold fast to the fact that we were not made to worry and stress.   God created us to rest and rely upon Him for everything.   As you look to Him today, expect good things for His lovingkindess is toward you and in the evening His song shall be with you!
 

Let us trust to experience His lovingkindness as we awaken and hear His song minister peace and rest to us at the end of our day. Let us remember to lean on Him not only for His strength and wisdom but for the balance He can bring to our lives. Thank Him as He unfolds His plan for your day. Lift up your soul to Him and allow Him to touch you because He loves you so much!