Since we are unable to meet in
person and most of us due to social distancing mandates we will all eventually
begin feeling farther and farther apart. In an attempt to if not draw us closer
to one another but perhaps closer to the one in whom all community is found and
in an act of faith I am committing to writing a few thoughts on scripture each
day. I do not promise profound theological wisdom. I just promise prayerful
thoughts, some questions and a prayer that will come out of my daily study of a
Psalm. It is my hope that this will be manna provided to all of us by God. So I
am calling these daily thoughts, “Manna for Today.”
Psalm 81:1-16
Key Verse: 81:10 NRSV
“I am the Lord your
God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide and I
will fill it”
In the middle of it
all we are reminded of the daily provision of God in the desert, mana and quail
for today and water from a rock. God is the provider of what we need. The Psalm
says, “open your mouth wide,” in order to be filled and to be satisfied, we
must first turn to God in a posture ready to receive what God has for us. Come
to God mouths wide open like a baby bird trusting, that with which we will be
filled will be exactly what we need, will fill us and satisfy our longings, our
desires, be the precise thing we need to make it through.
Things to Think on:
Things to Think on:
Take time, now, to
join the Psalmist in praise to God for all the things God has done. Ponder all ways
God has been there, been your strength, your healer, your provider.
Pause to listen to
God. Sit in stillness so you can hear what the Lord. God has to say to you.
Do you find it hard
to listen to God? In what ways are you tempted to follow your own counsel today?
To turn away from the ways of the Lord to follow the ways of the world around
us? How can you better trust God today?
A Prayer for Today
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