Daily Devotion in Psalm 92

Sorry, I missed a week of devotions.  I am still having difficulties with an infection from an in-office procedure.  Prayerfully, I will be able to consistently continue with the devotions.  —  Bill Brinkworth

Daily Nugget:
Although this song was attended to be sung on the Sabbath, today’s believers who now worship on Sunday also need to practice what this Psalm teaches. We need to be thankful for all God has done and will do for us.
“A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:” Psalm 92:1

We are quick to ask for help and blessings from God, but we are lax in being grateful for what He has done. Thank him for what He has accomplished through the day (Psalm 92:2). Be happy for the victories He has allowed you to have (Psalm 92:4). God is good, and we would have nothing if it were not for His wondrous works in our lives (Psalm 92:5).

Unfortunately, many take what God has given them and what He has allowed them to accomplish for granted. After their food is served, one can watch some of them in a restaurant dive into their meals like animals (“brutish” — Psalm 92:6). Never do they stop to thank God for the food and the money to purchase it. 

There are also foolish folks (Psalm 92:6) who attribute all that they see on this glorious Earth to the mythical, unproven “theory of evolution.” Some explain the Earth’s existence, and all that is found on it, was formed by accident. They indeed do not praise or thank God for much, if anything. Despite the intelligence they claim to have, they have no understanding of what God has done (Psalm 92:6).

We have so much for which to be grateful. We quickly see how much God has adorned us with if any of it is taken away. When some health is lost, we realize how blessed we were to have better health most of our lives. When we cannot buy what we want, we finally understand what God allowed us to have for so many years.

Do not be like the “brutish” folks, the foolish, or for circumstances to change for the worse before you see what God has allowed you to have and do. Be grateful now. Be thankful for His goodness in your life.

Today’s Thought: 
“Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” Psalm 107:8 Also Psalm 107:15,21, 31.

Words to Understand:
Brutish: a person governed by animalistic cravings and desires; without normal sensibilities and logic.
Flourish: prosper

Today’s Reading:
Psalm 92
1 A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
2 To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
4 For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
5 O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
7 ¶ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
8 But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
9 For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
10 But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
11 Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.