JOY COMES IN THE MORNING

“For His anger endureth but for a moment; in His favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Psalm 30:5

What wonderful thought pictures come to my mind when I think about God’s promise of Joy in the morning to the Children of God. It conjures thoughts of early morning song birds as they sing the melodies of life, new life coming in the new day and the early morning sun seemingly smiling on the human race and God’s creation. Even the air seems to be pure and unpolluted, and, Oh! the blessedness of a new day.

In contemplating the promise of God’s joy arriving right on time, I have often thought about the night that many people have experienced in the darkness that has just ended with the breaking of a new day. In this passing night many have found, instead of a needed rest and comfortable renewing of strength, that the night has held brokenness, emptiness, loneliness and despair. Many have lost the nights rest due to worry and guilt. Some have had to deal with an encountered sickness that was out of their control and has resulted in sleepless nights. What do you say to those people who have endured such a night. The darkest nights sometimes doesn’t come with the setting of the sun but in times of hearing a terrible diagnoses, or hearing your employer informing you of their decision to not need your services any longer, or maybe hearing the terrible words “I don’t love you anymore.” How dark is the night in times like these.

I don’t know about anyone but myself but I have had to face many dark nights and I surely didn’t know how I would get to the morning light from the night that seemed to endless. The only strength that I could muster was not in myself but that strength that I needed was in the promises of God. You may be in the night of darkest time of your life and looking for just one glimmer of hope. I want to say to you what God has promised to me and to all who put there trust in Him. “…joy cometh in the morning.”

Consider…

Psalm 94:17-19 “Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said, “My foot slippery; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. In the multitude of my thoughts with me thy comforts delight my soul.”

Psalm 139:1-12 “O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knows my downsizing and mine uprising, thou understands my thoughts afar off. Thou compasses my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knows it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it. Whither shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence. If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea. Even there shall thy Hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.”

Romans 8:31 “What shall we say then to these things, If God be for us, who can be against us?”

Romans 8:35-39 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter, Nay, in all these things we are more that conquerors through in that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, not things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us form the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

These are some of the promise of God that have helped me get through some of the darkest nights of my life. I count on these and many other promises of God daily. I am so grateful that “Joy Comes In The Morning.” Today, joy in the day God has given you no matter the night. He is faithful who has promised.

Until then…

Bro. Glenn