Psalm 5:1-3 English Standard Version
1 Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning.
2 Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.
3 O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you[a] and watch.
Footnotes [a] Or I direct my prayer to you
Using the footnote that portion of line 3 would read “I prepare a sacrifice for I direct my prayer to you.”
Do we think of directed prayer as a sacrifice? All we are doing is giving up a portion of our time with the understanding that in the morning God is listening.
When did we get the notion that the fist part of our day is the only time that God is paying attention to us?
Matthew 28:19-20 English Standard Version
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
“I am with you always.” That is not a promise to be here for us only in the early morning. So when did that change?
Considering that HIs instruction was to go and make disciples, perhaps Jesus was referring to the church age. This current church age did not truly begin until the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles and the Word was declared to many of the Jews that had come from all over the known world for that event.
Many things changed from the OT to the NT and the only reason is because God the Father sent the Son into the world to change everything that was misunderstood into an understanding of the truth in a real and relevant way.
Our old way of thinking and understanding moved from intellectual to faith based relationship in which God the Father sent the Holy Spirit to oversee this life in Christ which we live by faith. The OT only had a few chosen prophets that heard God speak. Now in this church age we have access to the will of God because of the Spirit of Truth. What hasn’t changed is our sacrifice of our time.