I was reading through psalms this morning, and I came across this:
For His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime or in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. psalm 30:5 (amplified bible)
So, hold on. First off, that is a pretty cool verse. It just shows how patient God is with us, even when we repeatedly screw up and are complete losers. His anger is but a moment...demonstrating that it IS okay to get angry, and validating the fact that stuff makes us angry sometimes, which is something I sometimes forget. Face it, stuff makes us angry. But the issue with most of us is that we hold the anger in and carry it around everywhere with us. And it festers and grows and probably unleashes itself out on some unsuspecting individual. But in this case, God shows us that even though He (we) may be angry for a second, His affection for us lasts forever and never wavers.
But anyway, on a more personal note...I feel as though the Lord is playing this verse out literally in my life. Because, typically, you can read it as "the night" meaning a darker season of life and "the morning" being a season of light and brighter days.
But this verse in my life quite literally means that the nights are bad and the morning is a new start.
Most of the anxiety stuff I've been dealing with happens at night. Sometimes it's mild, sometimes it's terrible..but regardless I always feel the same. Hopeless, frustrated, defeated.
Then in the morning I wake up and usually feel the effects of the night before, but usually I put on some worship music-and it feels like none of that matters. It's just me and God and I feel renewed in the sense that Jesus has promised to take care of me and everything will be okay. Joy comes because He is there and knows my pain and feels the weight of our burdens.
I don't quite know what the demonstration of this verse means yet, but I am thankful for the revelation this morning.
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