Joy In The Morning
“For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.” - Psalm 30:5
To grieve is to be human. One writer said, “Grief, after all, is part of love. Not to grieve, not to lament, is to slam the door on the same place in the innermost heart from which love itself comes.”
The Psalmist says in Psalm 34:18, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.” There can be no greater assurance than that—in the fact that grief is the pathway to healing.
It’s therapeutic you might say, so much so that God instructed Joshua and the children of Israel to mourn the death of Moses for 30 days because where there is no grief, there is no release. You cannot properly heal without it.
But the reason you can heal is because the grief does not last forever. Psalm 30:5 says, “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.”
Yes, there is a time to grieve, and God even wants you to. But it does not last forever. Joy DOES come in the morning! There will be a period when you feel broken, hopeless, or helpless. But that period will come to an end. The Lord will get you through this time, and you will see the light again!
His favor lasts for a lifetime! You may weep for a time, but just know, nothing lasts forever. As a believer, His favor is upon you; and just as there is a time for grief, there is a time for joy, and that time is on the horizon! Trust Him and know better days await!
To grieve is to be human. One writer said, “Grief, after all, is part of love. Not to grieve, not to lament, is to slam the door on the same place in the innermost heart from which love itself comes.”
The Psalmist says in Psalm 34:18, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.” There can be no greater assurance than that—in the fact that grief is the pathway to healing.
It’s therapeutic you might say, so much so that God instructed Joshua and the children of Israel to mourn the death of Moses for 30 days because where there is no grief, there is no release. You cannot properly heal without it.
But the reason you can heal is because the grief does not last forever. Psalm 30:5 says, “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.”
Yes, there is a time to grieve, and God even wants you to. But it does not last forever. Joy DOES come in the morning! There will be a period when you feel broken, hopeless, or helpless. But that period will come to an end. The Lord will get you through this time, and you will see the light again!
His favor lasts for a lifetime! You may weep for a time, but just know, nothing lasts forever. As a believer, His favor is upon you; and just as there is a time for grief, there is a time for joy, and that time is on the horizon! Trust Him and know better days await!
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