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MORNING— A Cry from Rock Bottom “In my trouble I cried to the LORD, and He answered me. Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.” Psalm 120 stands at the bottom of a staircase. If you glance at the headings in your Bible from Psalm 120 through 134, you’ll see…

MORNING— Praise at the Bookends “It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night..” Psalm 92 is the only psalm specifically marked “for the Sabbath,” and it opens by framing time itself. Morning and…

MORNING— God’s Recovery Plan “I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a…

MORNING— A Shepherd for the Directionally Challenged “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures;He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.” Some people seem to have an internal GPS. They always…

MORNING— Ground Zero “My God, my God, why have You forsaken Me?  Far from deliverance are the words of my groaning.” There is a place in England that looks almost forgettable at first glance—a thin metal line set into stone on a hill at Greenwich. It marks zero degrees longitude. Ground zero. The place from…

MORNING— God, You Do Good Work! “O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth.” You don’t have to be a folk-music fan, and you don’t have to like granola or wear hiking boots to understand why John Denver wrote Rocky Mountain High. All you need is a scenic turnout. Most…

MORNING— The Noise of the Nations “How blessed are all who take refuge in Him.” Psalm 1 taught us to watch where we walk.Psalm 2 now asks us to watch what the world is doing. The psalm opens with commotion. Why are the nations in an uproar? This is the sound of rebellion. The nations…

MORNING— Rooted in the Word “How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers. But his delight in in the law of the Lord and in His law he meditates day and night.” The first…

MORNING— Now My Eyes Sees You “Then Job answered the LORD and said, “I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted… I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract, and I repent in dust…

MORNING— A Whirlwind of Question Marks “Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, ‘Who is this that darkens counselBy words without knowledge?  Now gird up your loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you instruct Me!” Gary Larson once drew a Far Side cartoon imagining God competing with…