Psalm 92:2

Psalm 92:2 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night,
Today we’re continuing on in the list of “good things” that we started in 92:1. The first was giving thanks, which we outlined in the last post, and today we’ll be discussing singing His praises.

It is that time of year where most of us decide to “do things right”. We’re watching our diets, exercising our bodies and starting our reading plans again. But what about time with God, have we added “singing His praises” to our list of resolutions?

Look at our “good thing” for today as described in Psalm 92:2. It is a good thing “to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning”. Look at what Vines says about how the word “Lovingkindness” is translated:

In general, one may identify three basic meanings of the word, which always interact: “strength,” “steadfastness,” and “love.” Any understanding of the word that fails to suggest all three inevitably loses some of its richness. “Love” by itself easily becomes sentimentalized or universalized apart from the covenant. Yet “strength” or “steadfastness” suggests only the fulfillment of a legal or other obligation.

I like the thought of combining the three: strength, steadfastness, and love. There is no better way to start our day than contemplating the hedge that these three puts around us. How much different would our day be if it began with singing God’s praises for this triple threat? He has the strength to lend to allow us to overcome whatever may befall us through the day, He has the ware withal to stand with us as the storm buffets against us and we have His love to comfort us in all matter of ills. Why wouldn’t we sing His praises early in the morning?

There is another good reason to go to God first in the morning. It’s sort of like offering Him our “firstfruits” of the day because our minds and bodies are sharper first thing out of the chute. As the day wears against us it is easier for us to become distracted by family, job, the weather, etc. First thing in the morning it is easier to give Him our undivided.

We also have a biblical example for spending the first of the morning with the Father. Mark 1:35 tells us that Jesus rose early in the morning before daylight and went by Himself to pray. What better example to follow than that of our Savior?

Look at the other part of our “good thing”, it is a good thing to declare “Your faithfulness every night”. If the day is to begin with praising God for the way that He is going to be with us throughout the day then it is only fitting that the day end with us singing His praises for the way that He provided for us.

Let’s not just limit our time of praising God to the morning and the night however. Our lives are to be ones of continual praise! How’s the hymn go that we sing so often on Sunday?

This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.

Find time to praise Him today!

Grace and Peace to you all…