Rise Before the Dawn - Psalms 119

 Psalms 119:147-148 (ESV Strong's)

147 I rise before dawn and cry for help;

I hope in your words.

148 My eyes are awake before the watches of the night,

that I may meditate on your promise.

Rise Before the Dawn

The entire 119th psalm is a song about God’s Word. Every verse mentions something about God’s Word by using different words like testimony, truth, commands, precepts, statues, and/or promises.   The writer is confessing to the reader what he both does and wants in his life in regard to the Word of God.  In the above two verses we read what he is currently doing.  He has made God’s Word such a priority in his life, it actually wakes him up in the morning.  His first thought in the morning is the hope he has, based upon God’s Word.   He wakes before the dawn not to exercise.  He wakes before the dawn not to start his day (the early bird gets the worm, mentality).  He wakes before dawn not to get a good breakfast.   No, this writer wakes before dawn for one purpose, to meditate upon the promises of God.  These promises are what gives him the hope he speaks of.   His meditates in the morning, before anything else in his day, gives him the hope he needs to get through the day.   Rise before the dawn to meditate upon the promises of God’s Word.