♫O Happy Day♫

Friday, November 19, 2010 (6:23 a.m.)

Most Blessed Lord God,

Thank You! Thank You for rest and sleep and remembered dreams. Thank You for eagerness with which to rush out here to You this morning. Thank You especially for the opportunity to sing out to You ♫O Happy Day♫

Just the melody itself got me smiling! Looking up potential verses in Your Word and reading about them once again cemented Your goodness in our lives. You don’t change. Circumstances change. Cultures and rulers change. You stay firm. Unmovable. Unchanged. Thank You Lord.

Reading Psalm 104 I am again reminded of Your perfect plan. You had it all figured out from Your own very beginning. You spoke the physical universe into being. ♫O Happy Day♫ Wow Lord! Thank You that Your plan even included our much needed rescue from the sins You knew we’d make.

Lord, I don’t pretend to understand most things about You. How grateful I am that You were fully aware that we would be in constant need of reminding of Your goodness, Your grace, Your perfection. Thank You that even in researching the origin of this particular song this morning, I am again reminded of the importance of being ever in tune with the prompting of Your Holy Spirit.

Lord God, I first started out this morning in the book of Habakkuk being reminded of ‘the value of doubt’. Your prophet was appalled by the evil that surrounded him and he didn’t hesitate in bringing his honest concerns before You. These three chapters again affirm the truth that not only do You never change, You are our true source of hope.

Lord, may I just say right here and right now that You crack me up? Yesterday, I had jokingly thought that I would come before You this morning titling this “Deer In the Headlights”. Immediately I thought I would end up with a verse that assures You will make our feet like hinds [deer J] feet (Psalm 18:33). Sure-footed.

And what do I find right here in the very last verse (19) of Habakkuk’s prayer affirming his faith in You? “The Sovereign Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like the feet of a deer, He enables me to go on the heights”. ♫O Happy Day♫ Dearest Lord, ♫O Happy Day♫!

Now. All the way over in the book of Acts (8:26-39) Philip leaves a revival in Samaria to follow the directions of Your angel and witness to an official in the court of Ethiopia’s queen. He was obedient to Your leading and another person was saved because of it. ♫O Happy Day… When Jesus washed… He washed my sins away… He taught me how to watch and fight and pray… And He’ll rejoice in things we say… We’ll live rejoicing Every day… Oh happy day… He washed my sins away♫

Blessed, blessed Lord ~ there is SO much more here than I ever could have imagined! Thank You for giving me such an amazing gift as this ♫O Happy Day♫ Help me use it well. I love You. Thank You. Amen.

(517 words ~ 8:37 a.m.)