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Psalm chapter 71 verse 8

my mouth is filled with your praise and with your glory all the day. Is that not a great way to approach your day?

To fill your mouth with praise and the glory of God all day long. I love this verse in part because of its context.

We might read a verse like that and think, oh that's one a day is going really well. Just praising God all day long you're like on a

mountaintop things going well thanking God for all its grace and all these

different ways.

But that's not the context here.

Instead, the Psalmist is struggling,

is suffering at the hands of those who were unjustly coming at him.

And he's saying, verse four and five,

rescue me, oh God, from the hand of the wicked,

from the grasp of the unjust and cruel for you, oh Lord,

or my hope, my trust, oh Lord, from my youth upon you.

I've leaned from before my birth. You took me from my mother's womb so he says

my praise is continually of you and then you get down to verse 8 my mouth is

filled with your praise with your glory all the day.

And in the light of that, I just want to encourage you

to live that way today.

If you're listening to this at night,

to live this way tomorrow, go to bed this way and rise up and live this way.

Just what would it look like for you and me to approach this day or the next day and say my mouth is going to be filled with your

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