Psalm of the Morning Watch

O Lord, before the rooster calls the dawn to wake,
before the dew lifts from the grass,
before the first bird finds her voice —
You are already there.Selah

My heart is a field You have plowed and left tender.
I come to You with empty hands
and find them already full of mercy.
How great is Your faithfulness, O God.
It outlasts the morning.Selah

When I have wandered to the edges of my own strength,
You did not meet me with reproach —
You met me with bread for the wilderness,
with water from the rock,
with Your own name on my lips like a song I never learned but always knew.Selah

The nations rise and fall like wheat before the scythe.
The proud build towers and name them after themselves.
But You, O Lord, sit above the circle of the earth
and call the stars by name,
and none of them are late.Selah

So let my soul be still before You this day.
Let my mouth be slow and my hands be willing.
Let every acre of my life — every sown and fallow place —
be given back to You,
the Keeper of all growing things.Selah

Blessed be the Lord, the God of every morning.
His mercies are not rationed — they are new.
From this day unto the last,
let everything that has breath praise His holy name.

TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY  ·  AMEN