Morning Meditation on Psalm 63

Psalm 63:1-8

A psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;
My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise You.
Thus I will bless You while I live;
I will lift up my hands in Your name.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness,
And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.

When I remember You on my bed,
I meditate on You in the night watches.
Because You have been my help,
Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice.
My soul follows close behind You;
Your right hand upholds me.

This psalm and Psalm 62 keep reappearing in my life. If I weren't privately journaling about them, I wouldn't even have known that in the past two months they have cropped up at separate times to minister to me as if for the first time. My faith life has been something of a Wildnerness for many months--a state of confusion and longing and resentments. But I have learned some precious truths about being in an arid place. God LED the Israelites to that place. He had many things to teach them there. He had testings to put them through there. He had blessings for them there. Their cooperation was the key in how long they stayed there.

O Lord, let me be cooperative!

So much more to dwell on, but there is the smell of a ripe baby bottom in the air!