Day 1 — Mornings with God
The First Thought of the Day
“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.”
Psalm 5:3
Before you check your phone. Before you read the messages. Before you think about what's going to happen today — there is a moment that belongs only to you and God. It's here, in this instant when your eyes are still blinking and the house is still quiet.
God doesn't need you to come to Him already put together, already decided, already with everything figured out. He wants exactly the you who just woke up: hair uncombed, heart still caught in the middle of dreams, mind still taking shape.
"In the morning shalt thou hear my voice" — this isn't a promise that you'll say beautiful things. It's the promise that you'll show up. That's all. Presenting yourself.
There is something profound about giving God your first thought. Not the second one, not the one from the middle of the day when everything is pressing in. The first one. When life is still a blank page and you can write on it: "Today, God first."
That changes the tone of everything that follows.
Prayer
Lord, here I am. Before anything else, before anyone else, I come to You. Receive this simple moment as my offering of love. May my first thought today be Your name. Amen.