Lord, hear my words, heed my sighs. Heed my voice when I call. my King and my God, for to you I pray. In the morning You hear my voice, Lord; in the morning I lay <mijn gebed> down before you and I see <naar U> from. (Psalm 5:2-4)
They are not happy circumstances from which David speaks to God. The rest of the Psalm makes that clear. The things he perceives and experiences around him make him sigh and cry out to God.
What is special is how David starts his day in the morning: 'he lays down his prayer before God'. Wiersbe (1) writes the following about this:
“(…) Does God hear your voice in the morning? When He looks at you at the beginning of your day, does He see you as a priest who has come to offer Him sacrifices of praise? That is the meaning of 'to lay your prayer before Him' (verse 4). It means that you arrange the sacrifice on the altar.(…)”
The word 'to lay down' also means 'to arrange', 'to arrange'. The same word is used in Leviticus 1:7 and 8 (and other places) for the arrangement of the wood and the burnt offering on the altar of burnt offering.
That is beautiful! Start the day, each day with an offering of praise to God. That was what David did and we are allowed to do it too. Give thanks for the gift of God's Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Glorify Him for the work He accomplished on Calvary's cross. Honor him for all the salvation wrought by that great work of Christ!
Oh, depth of riches, both of wisdom and of knowledge of God, how unsearchable are His judgments, and how unsearchable are His ways! . . . For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. (Romans 11:33,36)
Then you may also dedicate your day to Him, as it says in the following verse:
I therefore call upon you brethren, by the mercies of God, to dedicate your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy unto God pleasing: your reasonable religion. (Romans 12:1)
You may 'arrange' and 'order' the parts of your day for Him. Storage in busy traffic, work, that one meeting in the morning, a difficult conversation in the afternoon, the visit in the evening. Name the parts of the day, lay them out before the Lord, and ask Him to bless them. That it may be 'holy and acceptable to God'.
Wiersbe concludes his reflection on Psalm 5 with the following sentence:
A good day begins in the morning, and it begins at the altar.
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(1) In Warren W. Wiersbe, 365 Days of Life from the Psalms, 2016 Grace Publishing House.
(2) See also here.
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