November 1 , 2006
Dear Friend,
Last week we thought about spiritual goals. This week, let’s consider how our spiritual goals affect our emotional condition.
This past Sunday, I shared that God enjoys being God and taking on God-sized challenges. The psalmist taught us that we can seek the grace of a glad soul because God delights in sharing His glad nature with us.
In Psalm 90:14, the psalmist Moses made the connection between a spiritual goal and the emotional condition of gladness. Moses prayed, “Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love.”
This was a spiritual goal for Moses. Every morning he dedicated time to seek, experience and enjoy the satisfaction of God’s steadfast love. He then related the emotional condition that followed his experience, and wrote, “That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.”
The way to be glad every day originates in the spiritual goal
of seeking God’s love every morning.
Some will respond that past life experiences overshadow their present emotional condition so powerfully that gladness seems unrealistic. Moses might have felt that way too, because he continued his gladness theme into Psalm 90:15: “Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil.”
Moses turned his unpleasant past experiences into a reason to ask God to grant him gladness for the rest of his life.
God desires to be part of your morning life ritual. Perhaps if you established time every morning to seek and experience His remarkable love, you might also grow in your sense of being glad. Your sense of experiencing pleasure, joy and delight in your life, work, and relationships grows by experiencing God’s love first.
Psalm 90:14 & 15 says, “Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,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.” ESV
Doc
Dr. Dave Collings
Lead Pastor
Christ Church
