Week Seventeen-Day One: End of Day

It has been said that our purpose can be summarized as glorifying God and enjoying Him forever. John Piper is certainly right when he says that the real key is to “glorify God by enjoying Him forever.”[1]

God is most glorified when we find the most joy in Him. This is what the Psalmist meant when he said, “Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart.”[2]

Let’s end tonight by reading Psalm 34:1-10.

¹ I will extol the LORD at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
² I will glory in the LORD;
let the afflicted hear and rejoice.
³ Glorify the LORD with me;
let us exalt his name together.

⁴ I sought the LORD, and he answered me;
he delivered me from all my fears.
⁵ Those who look to him are radiant;
their faces are never covered with shame.
⁶ This poor man called, and the LORD heard him;
he saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him,
and he delivers them.

⁸ Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.
⁹ Fear the LORD, you his holy people,
for those who fear him lack nothing.
¹⁰ The lions may grow weak and hungry,
but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

1. Survey your day.Was God stirring around you in ways that you now need to recognize?
2. End your day by praying this: “Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.”
3. Lights out!