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Tuesday... Oh to be satisfied, glad, approved and successful.


Tuesday... Oh to be satisfied, glad, approved and successful.

Moses is the writer of Psalm 90 and he prays a prayer we each one could pray each morning. In verse 14 (NLT) he prays, "Satisfy us each morning with your unfailing love, so we may sing for joy to the end of our lives." Oh without a doubt, God's unfailing love goes way beyond our needs and our expectations and in that we can sing for joy. We each morning, each day, can tap into God's unfailing love.

Oh I know we want family and friends around us who love us but we also have in the back of our mind and heart that we could do something that would cause them to quit loving us. Yes, their love is wonderful but their love is not unfailing. It is unbelievable and it can make such a difference in our lives but we aren't perfect and we can fail them and hurt them and in turn lose their love. But God's love is unfailing. 

He goes on in verse 15. He says, "Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good." Yes, we could pray that prayer today, couldn't we? I mean, there was such misery during Covid and for many it hasn't stopped so "Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery!" is a very good prayer to pray. And if you look back on Moses' life there was a lot of misery in it so that is a good prayer for him to pray. 

I love how he says that, "Give us gladness in proportion to" You may have had great misery and you want great gladness in proportion to your former misery. The Message Paraphrase says, "Make up for the bad times with good times; we've seen enough evil to last a lifetime." And that is so true for many of us.

He goes on in verses 16 & 17 (NLT). Moses says, "Let us your servants, see you work again; let your children see your glory. And may the Lord our God show us approval and make our efforts successful, Yes, make our efforts successful." And that was a great prayer for Moses to pray and for us to pray.

We are not perfect but we want and need God's approval on our lives and also we want our efforts to be successful and if Moses can pray this then we can too. "Yes, make our efforts successful."

Oh to be satisfied, glad, approved and successful. We too can pray that prayer today. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

  

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