quicken — to make alive; to revitalize; to keep living

Some days I feel so run down — either physically exhausted or spiritually weak or emotionally discouraged or mentally fragile or morally vulnerable.

And some days I feel all of that.

Then I need quickening.

The last 36 hours or so have been that way.

So guess what I uncover this morning in Psalm 119:145-160!

“Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment” (149).

“Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word” (154).

“Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments” (156).

“Consider how I love thy precepts; quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness” (159).

So…when I am feeling run down, I should call out to Him. But I rarely think of that!

And…when I am feeling run down, I should turn to His Word. But I rarely think of that either!

“I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments” (Psalm 119:131).

But I want to.

In the meantime, I continue reading His Word.

I will not allow the fact that I don’t pant and long for it keep me from it.

I will read. I will obey. I will value it as true and upright and righteous and faithful and pure. (It says so in the 129-144 sections of Psalm 119.)

And I will try to remember to ask God to also make it my delight.

“Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights” (Psalm 119:143).