Monday: Keeping Watch
The Gospel for Every Day
Each day, we slow down to align our hearts with God’s Rhythms of Grace.
This series, we examine the portrait of the Extraordinarily Ordinary Christian Life.
This week, we meditate on the theme of Keeping Watch throughout Scripture.
Today’s Scripture
As dark clouds can obscure the sun’s rays, the storms of life can interfere with our awareness of God’s work and presence in our lives. The Psalmist leads us to keep watching and waiting on the Lord, whatever the weather.
Reading slowly, let God convict you by his truth and overwhelm you by his grace in Christ.
Psalm 130
1 A Song of Ascents.
Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
2 O LORD, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!
3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
O LORD, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.
5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the LORD
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.
7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the LORD there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.
Gospel Meditation
Prayerfully meditate on the Scripture you just read using the rhythm Look Up, Look In, Look Out:
Look Up: What does this reveal about God?
Look In: What does this reveal about me?
Look Out: Where is Christ leading me today?
Closing Prayer
Inspired by Matthew 26:36-45
Father,
Like the disciples keeping watch at Gethsemane,
I confess that my flesh is weak,
I need your Holy Spirit to breathe new life in me
May I keep watch with you today,
Fully awake to whatever you want to do in me and through me
In the name of Jesus, who watches over me,
Amen
