A Heart Appointment: Does God hear your voice in the morning?
In Psalm 5 we find the psalmist saying: “My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will direct it to You, and I will look up” (v. 3).
It’s very important for you and I to meet God in the morning if we really want to have a good day. Jesus got up very early in the morning to pray, according to Mark 1:35.
I realize that people are on different schedules. When I used to work the night shift, I would be sleeping in the morning. So when I got up in the afternoon, I would meet with the Lord. We are not talking about an appointment on a clock. We are talking about an appointment in your heart.
Does God hear your voice in the morning? When God looks on you at the beginning of the day, does He look on you as a priest who has come to offer Him sacrifices of praise? That’s what the word “direct” means in verse 3-“to order my prayer.” It means to arrange the sacrifice on the altar. It’s a beautiful picture. When you wake up in the morning, remind yourself that you are one of God’s priests. How did you become a priest? Through faith in Jesus Christ. “To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father” (Rev. 1:5, 6). You’re one of God’s priests.
That means wherever you are is God’s temple because your body is God’s temple.
The first thing we do in the morning is the first thing the high priest us to do every morning. He laid the burnt offering on the altar. The burnt offering is a picture of total dedication to God. If you want to have a good day, start by giving yourself to the Lord as a burnt offering, a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. A good day begins in the morning, and it begins at the altar.
Devotional by Pastor Warren Wiersbe