Psalm 30:5 "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"
I thought the first thing I was going to write here was how this scripture was one of the first I was able to remember and memorize. It was easy to remember for me because of its simple yet profoundly written meaning with the promise of hope through the storm, allowing me to file it away in my heart and have it peak through like sun through the clouds on a rainy day. All of that is true, but one thing...I did not have it memorized. I only knew the last part "....weeping may last through the night but joy comes in the morning", which is beautiful but the first part I am now sitting blown away with the powerful statement: "For His anger lasts only a moment, but His favor lasts a lifetime!" that line is like the clearing of any clouds of that storm, accompanied by the gentlest breeze which perfectly compliments the sun warming your face and energizing your body.
My blog posts here are usually brought out from messages I feel the Lord is laying on my heart and prompts me to write about. The other night I woke up out of my falling asleep daze to scribble this down in my journal: "Joy comes in the mourning."
God's word holds the promise of joy coming in the morning, meaning there is a hope for tomorrow; to keep persevering despite what may be going on around you, despite the trouble or hardship you are facing. The double meaning laid before me was the joy also comes in the mourning. During the rough and sleepless nights, streams of tears and heartache, God is there. He has the compassion and love to use those moments as an opportunity to shine joy through your clouds of mourning.
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 says,
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort"
Joy coming in the morning, or mourning, is like comfort to distress. It takes off the pressure and draining nature of mourning or weeping and allows us a break, shows us a little piece of how His favor really does last a lifetime. It washes over our tired bodies sending relief throughout our soul--we may not know which step to take next, but He does, and that's enough.
