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"Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love." Psalm 90:14a

Satisfy is a word that holds so much meaning - contentment, feeling at ease. It's a "put your head back, close your eyes, take a deep breath and breathe out long and slow... 'arhhh' " type of word. Don't we all long to feel satisfied?

For the writer of this Psalm there is urgency in his appeal to God. Urgency for relief from a difficult time, like a long, dark night. (Psalm 90 MSG) The writer yearns to be satisfied. Satisfy means "to meet expectations or desires". This is no half-hearted appeal. It is an appeal for expectations to be met - fully.

The writer's expectation is to receive God's promised unfailing love. Love is part of the very character of God and cannot fluctuate/go in fits and starts dependent on passion or disobedience. It is constant, never changing. "Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands." Deuteronomy 7:9

That covenant of love still applies to us today. This covenant is displayed through Jesus Christ and His death: "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. " John 3:16

Perhaps your night, whether literal or metaphoric, has been long and dark. Therefore, appeal to God that you may be satisfied by His love in your circumstances whatever they may be.

May you know that God constantly and endlessly loves you, that He has adequately provided for you by giving His son so that you might have life, and that you might know satisfaction. The remainder of Psalm 90:14 says "that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days."