This is the first week of Advent. Our devotions this week are on the theme of waiting.
For today’s devotion, we invite you to spend time pondering God’s message to you in this passage from Psalm 40:1-5.
Read it slowly.
Ask yourself, “What is God saying to me? What lesson should I learn?”
Does the passage speak about this week’s Advent theme of waiting?
Ask yourself, “How is God inviting me to respond to this truth?”
Consider how your life might be shaped, changed, or formed by the truth in this passage.
Read the passage again, this time as a prayer.
Ask God to make the truth it teaches or the response it asks for a reality in your life.
Spend a few minutes in quiet reflection and celebration as you close your devotion time.
I waited patiently for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord
and put their trust in him.
Blessed is the one
who trusts in the Lord,
who does not look to the proud,
to those who turn aside to false gods.
Many, Lord my God,
are the wonders you have done,
the things you planned for us.
None can compare with you;
were I to speak and tell of your deeds,
they would be too many to declare.
Psalm 40:1-5