The Day...and the Night

Psalm 42:8 The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;

And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life.

There’s another verse in the bible that says God calls out the stars at night and even names them, lining them up to light the dark sky.  God has control over the darkness of night and the light of the day.

Here in this verse God calls and commands something else – His lovingkindness in the daytime. In other words, what he says goes.  And what he says is loving.  And what he says is kind.  

If you are hearing anything other than that, it’s not God that’s speaking to you!

Once the day is gone, and the night settles in, then he sends a song.  

Both your daytime and nighttime are blessed with his love and his melodies.

And the verse ends with saying that these two things – lovingkindness and a song – are the bookends to a day that is offered up in prayer to the “God of my life.”

Today…look for his lovingkindness toward you, listen for the song, and let your prayer flow from that experience.