IT'S NEW EVERY MORNING

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Psalm 30:5 (KJV)

This is a promise of deliverance, despite the sorrow of the present. When I began remembering and re-hashing some of my painful childhood memories, I felt so afraid that I would not be able to stop weeping or be held bondage to despair and hopelessness forever. But, the Lord reminded me that His mercies are new every morning and God would give me what I needed to be able to face tomorrow. He also took me to the book of Lamentations where we see the author hope in the Love and Mercy of God:

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have Hope: Because of the Lord's great Love we are not consumed, for His compassion's never fail. They are new every morning: great is your faithfulness I say to myself, "the Lord is my portion: therefore I will wait for Him". Lamentations 3:19-24

Lord, we wait on you and thank-you that weeping will only last for a time, but we have the great promise and hope from you that Joy comes in the morning. Thank-you Lord that your Mercies and Love will not fail us; that whenever I feel like giving up at the end of a hard day, that my portion will be new tomorrow and I will go on.

Tammy Koser