March 17, 2024

Psalm 5.3 (NIV)
In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.

Expectation can be a great burden; by contrast expectancy is the belief God will bless us in his way, at his time.*

In Bible college, there was much pressure on us students to schedule our personal “quiet time” in the morning. I felt a little guilty about it for years afterward because I am not a “morning person.” I was delighted to find a like-minded person who wrote: “I tried the early morning hours, which for some reason seemed more righteous.”* I finally learned that the perfect time for a daily devotion is whatever time works best for me and my schedule – which is at bedtime. I am thankful that it doesn’t matter when we call on God, morning or night, he is always there.

Whether you are a morning person or not, if, like the psalmist, you wake up laying your requests before God, chances are good that you went to sleep doing the same. There’s something about the morning that gives us hope, and we wait, like David, knowing that God is working on it.

Whatever is on your heart, you can wake up every morning knowing that it is in God’s hands. You can face the day with the psalmist’s attitude of expectancy as you look forward to the unfolding of God’s solution.

A child of God never prays to be conscious that God answers prayer, he is so restfully certain that God always does answer prayer.*