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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