Perhaps this coming year is the year to explore the wonder of God’s word in the wonder of how God describes His own people. One of the best has to be from Psalm 16:3. We who believe are called both saints and “excellent ones”. Is that not a wonder? God, through David, calls us His “excellent ones” (ESV). The NASB is even more explicit; it translates the Hebrew as “majestic ones.”
Read Psalm 16 and 46
Calling the Heart to Worship
It is morning and I say to the Lord what David said,
“You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from You.”
And as for the saints in the land,
“they are the excellent ones,
in whom is all my delight.”
So let me encourage all those who are Yours.
Bring them into my path
and let me be Your instrument of peace.
cf. Psalm 16:1-2
Read Psalm 46
Calling the Heart to Repentance
Your Word says that I should
“be still, and know that You are God.”
I don’t think I have been still at any point in the day.
My heart is a restless mess of motivations.
Forgive me Lord, for not trusting You more quickly,
more fully, more joyfully.
Destroy all my idols, O Lord
and make my heart delight in all Your ways.
cf. Psalm 46:10-11 and 106:34-43
Read Psalm 76 and 136
Calling the Heart to Rest
(a benediction on the day)
4 “You are resplendent,
More majestic than the mountains of prey.
5 The stouthearted were plundered,
They sank into sleep;
And none of the warriors could use his hands.
6 At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep.”
So, let my heart rest in the knowledge
that the God who swept the Egyptians into the sea,
watches over His faithful ones as they sleep.
cf. Psalm 76:4-6
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