What to you want to hear first thing in the morning? Pslam 143-145

Psalms 143:8 (NASBStr)

Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;

For I trust in You;

Teach me the way in which I should walk;

For to You I lift up my soul.

David, in this Psalm, is acknowledging the character and act of God.  In the previous verses he has stated that all men are wicked and no man could stand before God.  He ask God to withhold judgement (v. 2), because no man could stand before it.   In the above verse he sums up his prayer to God.  He asks God to "let me hear Your lovingkindness".    When  you think of lovingkindness  you think of feeling it, not hearing it.   You want the warmth of God's embrace to be felt on your shoulders.  You want to bury you fearful heart into His chest and ask for comfort.  Hear, however, David wants to hear the lovingkindness.   Note how the NIV states the same verse:

Psalms 143:8 (NIV1984)

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,

for I have put my trust in you.

Show me the way I should go,

for to you I lift up my soul.

David is fearful he will be cut off from God.   Either by his own sin or the work of his enemies he fears that he and God will lose touch with each other.   So, he prays to God that he might continue to hear of God love for him.  It is easy when we sin and when we are in despair and when we are being persecuted or tormented by others to lose out on the voice of God.    He knows that he needs to hear from God and about God.   He does not want to be cut off.   It is too bad that too many believers cease, by their own decision or lack of interest, to hear God's voice and about His lovingkindness each day.  Here, David wants to hear God's love "in the morning."   He knows the pain of night and the sin of night and the darkness of night.  In the morning he doesn't want to tune to the local news, the traffic report, ESPN Sport's Center, or Fox News.   He wants to hear about God's steadfast and continual love.  That is the only thing that will rescue him from the despair of the day.   He wants to be taught how to walk the day's path.   He offers his soul to God.   It starts with the right desire in the morning: Hearing about God's lovingkindness.