Your Heart’s Desire (Psalm 20:4)

 


Monday, 8 September, 2025


Psalms 20; 21

1 Kings 7:51-8:21

Acts 26:19-32


Observance: Birth of Mary, Mother of the Lord


Your Heart’s Desire (Psalm 20:4)


May he grant you your heart's desire
    and fulfil all your plans!


Sometimes we just a need a good blessing to get us moving on with our day. We can spend a bit too much time worrying over the finer details of God’s providence and plans for us, or the problems of the world, or that new ache in our body that is making us a little uneasy.


God seems to know us inside and out, and so in the midst of everything else that he has packed into the Bible for our understanding, he has included little pick-me-ups like Psalm 20.


I don’t think we need to overthink this Psalm too much. The last line about the king leads us back to the start of the Psalm, re-reading it in the light of the fact that we are the covenant people of King Jesus. If that is enough for us to read the assurances of God again, and to appreciate them as a love song from God to us a little more, then that is enough for a Monday morning.


When was the last time things got a little bit too much and you just needed some gentle words from the Lord? How might you remember the words of today’s Psalm next time you find yourself in a place like that?


Lord of our salvation, who makes us stand upright: grant us an encouragement of spirit, that we may know of your great love and blessing over us, and live as happy subjects of our King, the Lord Jesus.

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