✨It Really Does Come in the Morning✨
Psalm 30:4&5
Sing praise to the Lord, you saints of His.
And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.
For His anger is but for a moment.
His favor is for life;
Weeping may endure for a night,
But joy comes in the morning.
I’m not going to lie; things are hard for so many right now. I see so many people just like you and me that are having to pick which bills they pay and which ones they stop paying. I’ve also seen more and more people in the grocery store asking the checker to take items off after they see the total. There is a lot of embarrassment that goes along with having to make decisions like that and the atmosphere is tense in the world today.
While I have had to cut back just like everyone else, lately, I have reflected on where the Lord has brought me to and where I “came from”. I’m about to get raw and yes it does make me emotional, but I really feel like more people need to tell their whole story and not just the glorious parts. (Excuse me while I grab a tissue)
When Steven and I got married we were so young and had no clue what we were doing or how we needed to be doing it. Throw in me being a Type 1 Diabetic and having a baby 9 months after getting married. While the pregnancy was not the greatest experience – when I was 6 months post-partum, I was admitted into ICU not once, but twice because I had Hyperthyroidism, which caused Graves Disease. You can do your own research on all that, but I was deathly ill and nothing but bones. The medical bills were racking up and we still had to live on basically one income that was much less than it is today.
The Lord always provided our needs, but this one incident is something I will never forget. Steven works at HEB (I know we all love HEB) and he came home one day with a 50lb bag of pinto beans that had been marked down to probably 50 cents or something like that. That is not a typo either. FIFTY POUNDS! I was so excited thinking I had hit the jackpot. I divided all those beans into sandwich bags and filled our pantry. I felt like we were living off that 50lb bag of beans FOREVER. When we were better off financially I refused to eat beans for around 10 years. Those times were hard, but valuable.
I have heard Steven make this statement many times as he’s pulling steaks out of the freezer: “I can remember a day; we couldn’t even look at a steak in the store much less buy one”. Excuse me, while I cry a river. We know where the Lord has brought us to, but we haven’t forgotten where we “came from”. So much time has gone by since that 50lb bag of beans, but one day we looked up and realized “Joy came in the Morning”.
I don’t know what your situation is, and I don’t have to know. I do know we all have a situation. Put all your trust in the Lord and be content with where you are in the current situation. That joy David speaks of in Psalms 30, one day you will wake up and find it really does come in the morning. I’m a living, breathing testimony of it happening over and over in my life. 💜
Additional Reading: Philippians 4
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