Sunday 25th January 2026

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

It is good to praise the LORD
and make music to your name, O Most High,
proclaiming your love in the morning
and your faithfulness at night.
Psalm 92:1-2 (NIV)

Morning and night
In our staff prayers this week we read Psalm 92.  The heading says that it’s ‘A psalm.  A song.  For the Sabbath day.’  So, it has an immediate application to our corporate worship on a Sunday.

It’s not only right to praise the Lord, because of who he is and what he has done for us; it’s also ‘good.’  It’s good for us to praise him, in that it puts us where we were made to be.  It’s also good for God, not in the sense that it does him good, but in the sense that he values it as something good.

But what struck me was the different focus for our praise in the morning and at night.  Perhaps this was because we were praying together at the start of a day?  ‘In the morning’ we’re proclaiming his love, while at night it’s his faithfulness.

How appropriate.  It’s right and good to begin the day with a consciousness of the Lord’s love for us, that he still loves us as he did yesterday, and when that day ended.  And it’s right and good to be conscious of his faithfulness to us as the day ends, that he has been faithful through the day – faithful to us, to his promises and to his own character.

And wouldn’t that be a good pattern to adopt for our own prayers, to begin the day thanking God for his love for us in and through Christ, and to end it thanking him for his faithfulness to us through another day?

Sweet is the work, my God, my King,
to praise Your Name, give thanks and sing;
to show Your love by morning light,
and talk of all Your truth at night.  (Isaac Watts)

Prayer
Lord, it’s good to acknowledge that I wake every day to your constant love, and that I end each day with you having been faithful throughout that day –whether I know it or not.  Amen

Yours warmly, in Christ,
Chris Hobbs (Senior Minister)