“I lie awake each night thinking of You and reflecting on how You help me like a father. I sing through the night under Your splendor-shadow, offering up to You my songs of delight and joy! With passion I pursue and cling to You. Because I feel Your grip on my life, I keep my soul close to Your heart” (Psalm 63:6-8)

Thoughts shape our every day; things we think about in the night and when we awake can influence the course of each day. The psalmist was in the wilderness at this point in his life, and he said: “I lie awake each night thinking of You (God).” To think about God Almighty each night is a great choice. God’s nature is goodness. He’s everlasting. His justice is faultless. His ways are right. While thinking, David would see that God helped “like a father.” It wasn't common in his days to see God as a father, but while reflecting on God, he got this insight. Suddenly, songs began to come forth. “I sing through the night” and “offering up to You my songs of delight and joy.” Then, remarkably he realised: “I feel Your grip on my life.” God was there all the time! He never left. Glory! With his thought renewed, He saw God and a new passion to pursue and cling to God arose, so he said: “I keep my soul close to Your heart.”

Do we need to ‘lie down’ and think anew about God? His thoughts are in His word. “We have thought, O God, on Your lovingkindness, in the midst of Your temple. According to Your name, O God, so is Your praise to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness” (Psalm 48:9-10). Amen.

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