Psalm 92 "Declaring Your Steadfast Love in the Morning"

Psalm for Today = 92:1-4



Sunrise over Galilee
Photo: Greg K Dueker

¹It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
    to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
² to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
    and your faithfulness by night,
³ to the music of the lute and the harp,
    to the melody of the lyre.
⁴ For you, O Lord, have made me glad by your work;
    at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

Comments:

I am blessed by the simple contentment and gladness expressed by the psalmist here. He proclaims, “It is good” regarding giving thanks and singing praise to the Lord. It is the phrase that God had himself declared at the creation in Genesis 1. 

It is good. 

Why is it so much easier for us to find fault? Sure, we understand that sin entered the world and now there is pain, suffering, and death. Yet, even so, it was in this fallen context that the psalmist wrote these words. He too faced the crush of circumstances beyond his control and yet offered praise to the Most High.

What is it that we feel is good to do today? Whom, or what, do we declare is the Most High? How better to begin our morning than with thankful praise and to conclude our evening than with resting in the gladness and joy found in the Lord.

It is too easy to be filled with disappointment at circumstances and to rehearse our failures. When we do, we let the grayish brown smog of sinful sullenness mute the symphony of creation’s message and miss out on the simple joy of relating to the Maker of Heaven and Earth and being glad in what He has done. I, for one, need to be reminded to look for both the echoes of great goodness in the created world and the image of God in people today.

Do you see it? Thank the Lord for it!