Psalm 42:8

The Lord will command His loving kindness in the daytime and His song will be with me in the night, a prayer to the God of my life.
David is thirsting for God, he longs to be in His presence because the taunts of his enemies have been so sharp and so cruel and they have brought him to despair. But what he does next is crucial and something we must learn - instead of listening to the shouts of the enemy he speaks truth to himself. He would not listen to the lie that told him he had been abandoned by God, that he was alone and that there was no hope. No - he reminded himself of all that God is and all that He has promised and he spoke truth into his own soul. We must do that, we must speak aloud the promises of God, speak aloud so that the lies of the enemy are drowned out in a wave of joyful sound.
What is the lie you are hearing this morning? What is the circumstance that seems impossible, what is the state of your soul today? Because the truth is that God WILL command His loving kindness to bless you this day and His song WILL be with you tonight. Praise your God this morning, speak out the truth of His word to yourself and receive from Him the blessing He has promised. Then as you close your eyes tonight trust that He will give you a new song and awake to tomorrow to sing that song, your prayer, to the God of your life.

Psalm 31:14-15

I love David's psalms - mostly because even though there are many things in his life that might cause him concern or actually seek to do him damage nonetheless he puts his trust in the Lord. Here in these two verses he has done just that. If you look at verse 13 he says that he knows that there are many who slander him, that are plotting together to do him harm, actually to take his life but he has chosen to put his trust in the Lord because he knows that his times, that is his days and all the events of them are in the hand of, under the control of his God.

That's where we must get to - this total understanding that it is the Lord who controls our lives - that He allows only what will ultimately be good for us - that He is at work every moment bringing beauty from ashes and enabling us to see, to actually see His glory as we open the eyes of our understanding. This takes practice of course - we are not born with those eyes rather we must continually seek to improve the eyes of our faith - to see the unseen and to know the reality of the invisible.

All of us who are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been born again, each a new creation, who have entered eternity but do not yet see it with our human eyes - each of us must train our spiritual senses to lay hold of that for which we have already been laid hold of by Christ. We must immerse ourselves in His Word, let Him speak to us through it and then reply with our questions and doubts and cares - we must practice the art of conversation with the One who is the Word - the One who spoke and the world came into existence and who right now, this very moment is upholding that same world by the word of His power. We must make it our business to get to know the One who has saved us and who is preparing us moment by moment for an eternity with Him. As we do this we will find that we are able to actually see His glory - we will like Moses, Ezekiel, Isaiah and John be able to say we beheld His glory and the vision of that glory actually transformed our lives.

We need a vision of glory that will never leave us, that will flood our minds and our hearts - filling the deepest parts of our innermost being so that we are able to live moment by moment in the glorious knowledge that we belong to the One who is the rock, our fortress, our strong tower and our strength and in that knowledge go out with His glorious life giving gospel into a world that is blind and desperate and lost.