Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Psalm 143:8
Dear Lord Jesus, I’m told breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What I consume early will greatly determine the rhythms of the rest of my day. I know this to be true… especially on the mornings when meager sleep segues into a “much-ness” day, and I choose to break the evening fast with way too much caffeine and sugar. As they say, “Up like a rocket, down like a rocket.”
But on a far, far more profound level, what I put in my mind and heart as the day begins, affects a whole lot more than my energy level and how soon I will need a “power nap.”
Jesus, out of equal measures of delight and desperation, I make the Psalmist’s cry my own. “Let the morning (every morning) bring me word of your unfailing love”… that’s what I need more than anything else.
For only your love is better than life, Jesus. Only your love meets the deepest needs of my whole being and satisfies my most intense longings. Only your love is unwavering, Jesus, for all other loves are filled with conditions and contingencies. Only your love is unfailing, Jesus, for all other loves are fickle and finite.
Only your love can expose and replace my idols. Only your love can break my self-indulgent chains and set me free to love well. Only your love can heal the greatest heart-wounds I carry. Only your love can move me from navel-gazing to kingdom-living… and I can think of a lot more “Onlys,” Jesus.
So this morning and every morning… afternoons and evenings too, Jesus, preach the gospel to my heart by the Holy Spirit, for only the gospel is the “word” of your unfailing love… only in the gospel do I hear and experience your unfailing love.
Jesus, I care little about the “breakfast of champions”… I’m just a simple man who needs what only you can give… your unfailing love. So very Amen, I pray, in your totally trustworthy name.