1. Thank the LORD for the opportunity to consider his persevering kindness toward us. When we consider our former ways and their various disastrous outcomes, let that remembrance not lead us to despair. For ours is the privilege also of considering one thing more: the kindness of the LORD. We plant what little seed and stock we have on hand. We water it as we’re able. Yet it’s ever the LORD in his open-handed goodness that, in its time, yields the increase. “Yet from this day on I will bless!” Haggai 2:18-19

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2. Pray for a grateful heart to sing with David, “I have been young, and now I am old. Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread” (Psalm 37:25). Our covenant God opens his hand and satisfies the desire of every living thing (Psalm 145:16).