Psalm 30:5 “For our light, momentary affliction, this slight distress of the passing hour, is evermore and more abundantly, preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory beyond all measure, effectively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!” We’re still here…reaching for the hem of His garment, seeking whatever He has for us, knowing, without a doubt, it’s good. We announce our human frailties before Him, asking His favor for each one. We may even give instruction as to how we think our restoration should look…He causes us to remember He’s got a plan not to harm us, but a plan to prosper us. A plan of goodness and grace, mercy, and compassion, love and forgiveness. He reminds us to be patient as our weeping lasts just for the night. We can trust Him when He tells us Joy comes in the morning…with the Light, and with that Light there is Life. Sometimes it ‘feels’ like our night lasts for an entire season, perhaps even longer. We wait for the Joy we know that’s coming. While we wait, we press in to Him, we hold on to Him, we trust in Him. Knowing we’re not alone in the ‘night’ gives us Joy and comfort, a strength we otherwise wouldn’t know we could have. Strength that comes from knowing He’s in us, and we’re in Him, safe in His Refuge. We’re still here… What ‘time’ is it. Is it night…Or is it morning? Knowing we cry out and He answers, that He keeps us…we can’t slip through His fingers, knowing His name is Mercy and Grace…We sing to the end, our tongues and hearts and everything glorious within us, we sing praises to Him. We’ll not be silent, we give thanks to Him forever…whether it’s ‘night’ or ‘morning’, in season or out, we sing His praise.
