By
Elin Henderson
“To declare Your
loving-kindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night.”
Psalms
92:2 (NKJV)
In a time when life has a lot more unknowns than knowns,
God has given me this precious verse to remind me that He has placed His
parentheses around me each and every day.
Every morning, He awakens me with a declaration of His loving-kindness
and every night I fall asleep being reminded of His faithfulness. Everything that happens in between falls into
the protected middle and are filtered through these two little (curved walls).
His loving-kindness reminds me that He has a love for me
that will never let me go, a deep tenderness combined with consideration. That is the Hebrew translation in a nutshell
of this word “chesed”. [1] It means
more than love and more than kindness, rather the best of both! It signified
the covenant between God and Israel and the same could be said with us, His
children bought by the precious blood of His son!
His faithfulness brings to mind God’s
unchangeableness.[2] There is no shadow of turning with Him. It is a reminder of His consistency towards
me, and the fact that He will never leave nor forsake me.
May you remember these parentheses as well when you wake
up each day and fall asleep each night. May they hedge you in every hour of
every day: His tender consideration which will never let us go starting you
off, and His consistent character and unchangeableness closing you in for the
day!
GOING DEEPER:
1. What’s a practical way you can remind yourself
(or others) of these “parantheses”? (Write it on a card above your bed? Put it
on your fridge? On your coffee maker?)
2. How can
this impact the way we handle the things (and people) that come our way during
the day?
FURTHER READING:
Oakwood’s
missionaries Elin Henderson (a registered nurse) and her husband Phil serve as
church planters with New Tribes in Mozambique, Africa. Elin is mother to fourteen-year-old Callie
and eleven-year-old Elias.
