I’ve come to find out that something very
interesting happens at night while I'm sleeping. There are people all over the
world making news! But I found
out that God has Good News for me Every Morning! And one of His consistent
daily headlines is found in Psalm
143:8. Listen to this: "Let
the morning bring me word of your unfailing love. For I have put my trust in
You. Show me the way I should go. For to You I lift up my soul."
God's inviting us here to check out the news from heaven every new morning. If
you do, you will notice that the headline is always the same-God's Love Is Unfailing. And no
matter what went on during the night, even
if you were a part of the story, God still loves you very much.
Truth is, there are those days where we're ruled by
our worries or our weakness, and we’re ruled by our pain, our guilt, by our To
Do List, our responsibilities, our stress, our moods, our erratic emotions. The
problem is that I think we choose early in the day to focus on other headlines
instead of God's. It’s like having this important front page story, but when
you look to the left, you see the one day sale at Macy’s and so your focus
shifts, and you ignore what was most important. Or, instead of focusing in on
God's unfailing love, we fill our heart with a headline like this: The money is failing! The interest rate is
failing! My strength is failing! My health is failing! My loved ones are
failing! My dream is failing! The one I trusted is failing me! The church is
failing me! However, remember this: every earth thing, every earth person will
fail you sometimes. You can ONLY get Unfailing Love from God!
None of us knows what news will break in our life on
any given day. When a parent will get sick, a sibling dies, a child goes
astray, you lose the house or job, your diagnosis is steadily declining, your
marriage ends, your church doors close for a final time, the car crashes, the
stray bullet comes through the wrong window….the list is endless of what could
happen from day-to-day. That's why I love the security of Hebrews 6:19, that says, speaking of
Jesus, “This hope [this confident
assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break
down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that
enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which
the very presence of God dwells],” (AMP). His love is one love that will never
leave. One unmovable relationship. One unloseable security. How
wonderful it is to wake up in the morning and go, "I know He loves me. I've opened my life to that love that began on that
cross." And every time I think of it my mind wonders to Scriptures
like these:
Therefore, every morning,
empty your mind, your emotions, and your attitudes to the headlines from
heaven. They overrule every other headline. The morning news is always this: God
Loves Me Today! And there will never be a moment that He doesn't. This day I am
incredibly loved by an incredible God. Now that’s Good Morning News…And I
Receive it…Everyday!
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