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 Ethnos 360 in Mozambique, Africa.
Elin is mother to eighteen-year-old Callie and fifteen-year-old Elias.
