Psalm
20:1-9
Key
Verse: 20:5
“May
we shout for joy when we hear of your victory and raise a victory banner in the
name of our God. May the Lord answer all your prayers.”
The Psalmist seems to be
speaking directly to us; rejoicing when our prayers are being answered;
shouting for joy over our victories. Yesterday we thought about what it would
mean for us if we rejoiced when others are blessed. Today we get to turn that
same idea on its head. When all of us are rejoicing over the victories of
others, that means we too are being rejoiced over. When we learn to rejoice for
others, other will join us in rejoicing and everyone’s blessings, everyone’s
victories, when each one’s prayers are answered, including our own, are
rejoiced over. Learning to rejoice for others, in the end brings joy into our
lives. Let us rejoice for one another. Come let us rejoice together, because
God is good. God is good to you and God is good to me.
Thing
to Think on
How did rejoicing for the blessing of others change
your perspective yesterday?
Did it occur to you that if you rejoice for others,
that someone may also be rejoicing for you?
Is it easier to rejoice for others, when you know they
too may be rejoicing for you?
A
Prayer for Today
Lord, help me to rejoice for all the good in the world.
For the good done for others, for the ways theirs lives are blessed. Let me so
fill my world with rejoicing for others, not so that I too may be rejoiced
over, but knowing that giving joy away, fills my world with joy and will be so
immersed in it my life can not help but be shaped and changed by the joy I have
for others and the joy they have for me.
– Amen
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