JOY IN THE MORNING
I wrote about the following incident a few years ago, but
the message is still pertinent for current times:
It was a horrible day at work. I’m glad I didn’t let my
mouth say what was blaring in my head. At least I had that much self-control. I
could have flattened someone in about a minute with the words no one got to
hear. I tried just about everything I could do to stay calm, be reasonable, get
the peace of God working in me, but it wasn’t working. I was angry beyond the
circumstances, and I didn’t know why. I’m so glad it doesn’t happen very often,
but when it does, I’ve learned to just hold my tongue and get through the day.
When I get in that state, I know it’s deeper than what’s
just on the surface. It affects me so that I even forget to ask the Lord what’s
going on. My emotions start ruling, so I’m not in a good receiving state to get
the Lord’s solution either. But once I calm down, and I always do, He lets me know
why I got so upset.
Sometimes it’s not even so much something inside me, as
it is a reaction to the bigger atmosphere around me. Have you ever noticed that
when the atmosphere around you gets agitated, you tend to get agitated as well?
It’s contagious.
But one thing I always know is that God’s favor is on me,
and David says in Psalm 30:5: “In his favor is life: weeping may endure for a
night, but joy cometh in the morning.” I’ve always found that to be true. The Hebrew
word for “morning,” in this verse, can be translated “breaking forth of light.”
The light of morning is the end of night and the darkness. Jesus tells us in John
8:12 that he is our light, “saying, I am the light of the world: he that
followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
In the next verse, David declares: “And in my prosperity
I said, I shall never be moved” (Ps. 30:6). When we really trust the scripture,
we will always be rich on the inside. To know that we can have a terrible day
and that God will see to it that the next morning will be better is a true
treasure. A big part of being prosperous is knowing and experiencing how fast
God can turn things around for us.
When I calm down after a particularly rough day, I pray
to the Lord that He will show me what happened and why. Even if I don’t find
out all the answers right away, I know that when the light of Jesus comes, I
will not only understand what happened, but I will know exactly what to do
about it! That’s what it means to have a Lord who cares enough to always give
us a Godly solution to any dilemma or trauma.
David was in a much worse situation than me. Time and
time again, people were after him to kill him, and he not only had hope of joy
in the morning, but he believed it with all his heart. He knew the value of joy
in the morning after a bad day. We have so many things in our world that we
can’t trust, but, like David, we can always trust our Almighty God that what He
says is true.
“God
is not a man, that he should lie; neither
the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and
shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and
shall he not make it good?” (Num. 23:19).
If God says we can have joy in the morning, then we can.
Who are we to argue with God? Wouldn’t that be sin? Rebellion?
So, my lousy day ended, and I received answers as to why I
reacted the way I did. I also know how to be prepared if the same type of
demons try to set me up in similar circumstances. Now I am calm, thank God, and
this day will be a great one! Remember this verse from Psalm 30:5 and apply it:
“In his favor is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the
morning.”
Love, Carolyn
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