Fighter Verse… Psalm 130:5-6

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope. 6 my soul waits for the Lord more than the watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

to have patience. to wait on the Lord. We don’t have watchmen anymore, not in this sense of the word. Most of ours are electronic and technological rather than a human, staying up at the city wall, watching for danger, for attackers, for enemies. Late nights, waiting in the dark for the light of day, hoping that there is no danger lurking, no danger coming. fighting sleep and fatigue, trying to maintain alertness so that the city can be warned of danger or need. Waiting for the morning to come so that sight is clearer, so that dangers cannot be cloaked in darkness. Anticipation of the coming light of day, the end of the dangerous shift, the end of the edginess of responsibility and need to be alert. If I was on the watchman shift, I would be very excited for morning and the safety that the light brings and the release from the stress. More so is the writer here anticipating and waiting on the Lord. He reads His word and hopes in it. He waits. He anticipates. His very soul is waiting on the Lord. The light that makes the darkness flee.

Have hope in His word today. read it and find joy, truth and light.