Filled: A Devotional to Fill Your Life With an Abundance of Hope, Peace, Joy & LoveSample

Day 9: Filled With Comfort

Read this Psalm in both NLT translation and the Message version.

I want to tell you why I chose to read this Psalm a couple nights ago. I had a terrible, terrible nightmare. It was one of those that was just so vivid and awful, and I woke up with that frozen feeling. Do you know what I’m talking about?

My heart was racing and I couldn’t move. I wanted to talk to my husband, but I didn’t want to wake him up. It was one of those kinds of nightmares. I started scrolling on social media, and I came across a verse in Psalm 118 that really, really centered me and calmed me. This is from Psalm 118 the NLT version, “Thank God because he’s good, because his love never quits.”

I also love verse 28 as written in the Message version. “God is God, he has bathed us in light.”

What a verse. You know, God is God. Period. If we just read that one verse today, God is God, that would just infuse me with strength and comfort.

His love never quits. It never quits. His love never fails. That is amazing. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 13 (which is just a letter to the people who lived in Corinth), that His love never fails. He will never fail you. If something horrible has happened in your life, he will work it for your good and His glory. That is how God’s economy works. It never fails and it never quits. God is God. He has bathed us in light.

I remember when my children were babies; do you remember those little baby bathtubs? And do you remember the smell of the Johnson Baby shampoo? I still remember that smell. I remember buying the softest little tiny washcloths to wash them oh so gently. God bathes us in light.

I think that’s such a beautiful picture. The world is surrounding us in darkness. There’s darkness everywhere. There’s negativity everywhere, but our God is God and He bathes us in light. He covers us in His light. And how do you stay in that light? You stay in His word. You stay connected to Him in prayer. Sometimes you can just say, “God, I need you.” In the middle of a tough situation at work or when you are just at the end of your strength with something going on in your family you might only be able to muster this small prayer. If you are so tired of the mundane, if you are weary in spirit or body, just say, “Help me Jesus.” Just saying His name out loud and inviting Him into your space, brings joy and light.

God is God.

PRAYER: God, we recognize you as God in our lives. We know that you want to bathe us in your light and wash the darkness away. We want to allow ourselves to be soaked in your truth, in your light. Thank you for loving us so well and for never quitting on us!

REFLECTION: Are you in a place where you need to invite Jesus into your space to recapture your joy, to bathe you in his light? Ask him in today!