Satisfy us in the morning with Your loving devotion, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.Oh satisfy us in the morning with thy lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
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… Satisfy my soul Psalm 90 14 Satisfy us in the morning With your steadfast love That we may rejoice And be glad all our days Do you ever pray like that? do you pray like that when you sit down to meet with god in his word god satisfy me again this morning do you pray like that it's my main burden for you this evening that when i think about your time alone with the lord you've probably prayed for god to help you understand the bible and you've probably prayed for God to forgive you and sanctify you. You may have prayed and asked God to help you focus when you sit down to read the Bible. I would bet, though, that fewer of you sit down with your Bible and expect God to delight you, to captivate you, and really move you as you meet with Him. you expect that when you sit down with your favorite meal. No one has to tell you to pay close attention here and enjoy yourself when the barbecue comes. …
… I should be gone, not him. Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. So, what is obvious from the Bible is that God intends for his glory, his radiant fullness, himself to be the ground of our fullest and longest happiness. That's the design of creation. That's the design of redemption. That's why Jesus died. That's why he rose. reigns so that you, the bride of Christ, would be happy in your groom forever. And in that happiness make his glory shine. Affections for God are not icing on the cake. I don't know if in your culture you use the word icing on the cake. Maybe you don't even have icing on cake where you come from. Or what a cake is anyway. But a cake in my tradition is a big sweet hunk of tasty, what is it, Noel? Is it bread? I don't even know what a cake is. I just like it. And then you put white or chocolate or peanut butter icing on top of it, and that's even sweeter. …
But what does it mean to number our days? Well, part of it may simply mean admitting that our days are indeed numbered. A good friend of mine has recently been reading the best-selling book, Being Mortal. As you may know, the book is by Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon and professor at Harvard Medical School. And it's a very frank description of what it's like for us as human beings to come to the end of life. It's a book about what it means to grow old, for our bodies to wear down and to fail, and especially what it means to encounter the inevitable truth that we will all die. Well, when my friend got about halfway through the book, he confessed to me, you know, this book scares the heck out of me. Well, I understand that what frightens my friend, what frightens all of us, I suppose, is right there in the book's title, Being Mortal. We are all mortal. We know that, of course, but we tend to know it in the abstract. …