Just Wait Until Morning!

You know the old saying, "It's always darkest before the dawn."  And you know its true.  The darkest time of night is just before sunrise.  It's also the coldest time of night.  The meteorologists' low temperatures for the day most often occur just before sunrise.  I don't know about you, but I don't like the dark.  The only thing the dark is good for is sleeping.  And I most certainly don't like the cold.  Cool I can take.  Cold, no thank you.

So I'm extremely grateful that although it can get very dark and very cold some mornings, we have the promise that the sun is coming up, the air will become warmer, and a new day will be upon us.  The morning glow of the sun will start to beam down and it's radiant heat will cause the temperature to rise. 

Just as our every day begins this way, our lives can have this renewed beginning as well.  We often travel through dark and cold times in our lives.  And often just when we think they can't be any darker or any colder, our world seems to become totally pitch black and ice cold.  Unlike the nighttime, we often don't know how we got to these dark places in our lives.  We don't understand why we're in the midst of them.  But just like the nighttime, we have the same promise....morning is coming. 

If our faith is in Christ...if it is TRULY in Him...and we trust in Him, listen to Him, obey Him, and wait on Him...our morning will come.  It's not always an easy process.  Some nighttimes are much longer and much colder than others.  But if our focus remains on God's love for us and His unwavering promise to never leave us nor forsake us, we can rest assured that our morning will come.  And the light and the warmth that accompany it will be unlike any other. 


"For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."  ~ Psalm 30:5

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."  ~ James 1:2-4