More and more we rely on a good cup of coffee in the morning to be ready to start the day.

Psalm 94 talks about God’s consolation cheering our soul (especially when our hearts are heavy).

Although it does not include authorship, there is speculation that Jeremiah, Moses or most likely David penned its content with application extending to the worldwide “church”.

Regarding verse 19, this excerpt states it well… from The BibleHub.com “thy comforts delight my soul; such as flow from the love of God, is shed abroad in the heart; from the presence of God enjoyed; from the exceeding great and precious promises of the Gospel; from Christ, and the things of Christ, shown, brought home, and applied by the Spirit; his person, offices, fulness, righteousness, blood, and sacrifice; all which are a fund of divine consolation to a distressed mind: these are the consolations of God, of which he is the provider, author, and giver, and therefore called “the God of all comfort”; they come from Christ, the “consolation of Israel”, and by the Spirit the Comforter, who sheds abroad the love of God in the heart; reveals Christ, and the things of Christ; opens and applies the promises; wherefore these comforts are called the “comforts of the Holy Ghost”; and they are usually enjoyed by means of the word and ordinances…strong, and even everlasting, and which “delight the soul”; worldly comforts may delight the animal part, and please the senses, but not delight the soul, especially a wounded spirit, a distressed mind; but these will satiate the weary soul, and replenish the sorrowful soul with a joy unspeakable, and full of glory: the psalmist may here represent the church in the latter day, when in the midst of her troubles, and having many distressing thoughts concerning the issue of things; the comforts of God, from his promises, will delight her”…

On our walk home from coffee this morning, we spied the illumination of the creek bed feeding the wetlands. It was beautiful in the setting of the “super” luminous full moon and early rising of the dawn.

From the night to the morning…we look to you, O God, our strength and our Redeemer. Even as a night watchman waiting for the coming of the dawn, my soul waits for you. -Teresa

Psalm 94:12-19 (ESV)*

¹² Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O Lord,
    and whom you teach out of your law,
¹³ to give him rest from days of trouble,
    until a pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴ For the Lord will not forsake his people;
    he will not abandon his heritage;
¹⁵ for justice will return to the righteous,
    and all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶ Who rises up for me against the wicked?
    Who stands up for me against evildoers?
¹⁷ If the Lord had not been my help,
    my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.
¹⁸ When I thought, “My foot slips,”
    your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
¹⁹ When the cares of my heart are many,
    your consolations cheer my soul.

*The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. ESV Text Edition: 2025.