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Monday... God allows us our Monday mornings.


Psalm 22:26 (NLT), "The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy."

Monday... God allows us our Monday mornings.

Yes he does and he understands.


Now David writes in Psalm 22:26 (NLT), "The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy." But that isn't the way he started this Psalm. In verse 1 he writes, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away when I groan for help."

He even looks to the future when Jesus will be on the cross. He says in verses 16-18, "My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs; an evil gang closes in on me. They have pierced my hands and feet. I can count all my bones. My enemies stare at me and gloat. They divide my garments among themselves and throw dice for my clothings." Yes David knows how we feel and so does Jesus, God's Son.

The Psalms let us lament, they allow us to have our Monday mornings. But they don't let us stay there. Yes, Jesus had his Sunday coming, his resurrection and we have our verse 26, "The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy."

Verses 27-28 says, "The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him. All the families of the nations will bow before him. For royal power belongs to the Lord. He rules all the nations." And verse 31, "His righteous acts will be told to those not yet born. They will hear about everything he has done."

Yes, God knows about our Monday mornings but he also knows what is coming. For Jesus, it was his going back home and way down the road that is also true of us. But here on earth it says, "The poor will eat and be satisfied. All who seek the Lord will praise him. Their hearts will rejoice with everlasting joy." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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