Psalm 85:1-13
Key Verse: 6-7
“Won’t you bring us back to life again so that your people can
rejoice in you? Show us your faithful love, Lord! Give us your salvation!” CEB
My
daughter is good with plants. She will find a plant, someone has given up on
and set out on the curb thinking that it is done for. She will bring it in,
take care of it and with love, care, the right amount of Sun and water, she can
bring it back to life. In this Psalm we are that plant and we are asking God to
bring us back to life. We desire for God to show us the loving kindness, which
can only be found in and through God. We cry out for God’s faithfulness, and provision.
We need God to gives us what we need so we can live again, so we can be
restored to fullness, life and growth.
If
we choose to turn to God, God will turn to us. In fact, when we turn to God, we will
find God is already turning toward us, reaching out to us, abandoned, lost,
left to along the roadside by grief, hardship, pain or even just the overwhelming
struggle of day to day life. God will bring us home, put us in the window. God will provide us with exactly what we need
to flourish and grow. When we choose to
turn to God in the midst of it all we will always find that God is there
already, giving us what we need to bring light in to the dark places of our
lives, redeeming the pain and sorrow we have experienced, restoring us so we
can flourish and grow again.
A Prayer
for Today
Lord
God, I am so tired. Sometimes I feel
life has drained the life out of me. I am withered, sun scorched and dry. I am
come to you today, in all my hurt, in all my pain, with all my struggles, with
the monotony and dullness of this day, desiring the restoration on you can
bring. As I turn to you let me see you at work with your faithfulness, your
love, your care and your provision. Let me know your redemption and your
salvation. Let me grow again. Let me flourish in your light and your love. - Amen
