What is Better Than Life?
Join me today in becoming a connoisseur of God’s lovingkindnesses. They are the special little unexpected things God does for us because He loves us, even though we don’t deserve them and often don’t even think to pray for them. It’s easy to brush right past His lovingkindnesses and not recognize them as gifts from God… a beautiful sunrise, the smile of a friend at the right time, a cool breeze on a hot day. “That’s nothing new or miraculous,” you say. A kindness doesn’t have to be miraculous. It’s a loving kindness. A picker-upper. Start recognizing them. David did:
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. Psalms 63:3. What is better than life? God’s lovingkindness. Yesterday morning, after I wrote my blog, I prayed for a lovingkindness. In a few hours, I had an email from a business friend I’d been out of touch with for more than six months, and she had a significant freelance writing assignment for me. Thank you, Lord!
Here’s a good practice. In the morning, pray for a lovingkindness, then in the evening, pray a prayer of thanks for His faithfulness as you look back at the kindnesses he showed during the day. That sounds so simplistic, you might think. Well, I can’t take credit for it. Read this: It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, Psalms 92:1-2. And how about this: Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. Psalms 42:8.
Expect that God will be awesome today, and praise Him at night because He was awesome today.
Have a great day. Be sure to share your lovingkinesses. And before you charge ahead, just think on these verses: Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's. (Psalms 103:1-5)
Jody