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So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart. Turn, O Lord! How long?Have compassion on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be manifest to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and prosper for us the work of our hands— O prosper the work of our hands! (Psalm 90:12-17)
Happy Thursday, dear Friend! May the Lord make His face shine upon you today is my prayer! I begin with a CORRECTION from yesterday's devotional. In the part where it reads: Osteen: You're doing great! Amos: You aren't doing what you should be! I should have added some words to better explain what I was intending: Osteen says to his audience: "You're doing great!" Amos says to his audience: "You aren't doing what you should be!" Some of you took it to mean I was telling Osteen he was doing great; and to Amos that he wasn't. Joel Osteen does bless some people and that has its place, but Amos blessed God and made many uncomfortable. I apologize for that misunderstanding, and for this devotional coming a bit later than usual. Long story! Pray for those still affected in many areas by weather; may God bless and protect all. Pray for one another; pray for yourselves.
Most of us are familiar with the first words of this passage from Psalm 90: "So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart." A reminder to all of us to take each day as a precious gift in which we make the most of it we can, trusting that God will be blessed as will those around us. The psalmist also asks the Lord to turn back to His people. As is the case, we are the ones who turn away from God and yet we cry out asking God to turn back to us. And it's a daily thing; we should seek the Lord from the morning on, seeking that which satisfies God and we allow God's steadfast love to satisfy us, leading us to rejoice and be glad. Our hearts should be full for the days we have lived, and even in spite of those days that we count among days of affliction and evil, God was with us. In spite of this, we continue to move forward to do God's work and to be God's people. And may everything we touch and do for the Lord be a blessing to God and to God's people!
PRAYER: Loving God, speak to us right now. Make the words of the psalmist be our words as well. We thank You for allowing us to wake up and take a breath and to be alive. Guide us to faithfulness and fruitfulness. Grant us strength to be active and busy for You; this we pray in Christ Jesus' strong name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord! Be the person glad to be alive among those who are not.
Eradio Valverde
