Psalm 30:3b,
"weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning."
Some thoughts
for today!
Jesus oft spent
the night in prayer, alone; especially when He had important events to prepare
for. He also arose early in the morning to do the same.
But let’s look
at the significance of evening prayer and "weeping for a night."
Because we all
are "day" based for most our activities we think that the new day
begins at sunrise, but alas Scripture proves us wrong. The new day begins with
the evening meal and that should be around 6 pm.
Genesis 1:3-5,
"3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw
the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day."
"And the
evening and the morning were the first day" shows us that the evening
starts the day.
This is a
special time in Scripture as the events that come in the morning are effected
by what we do during the start of the evening which is the beginning of the
day.
Evening is the
time for the "family meal" where all gather around the table and the
events of the day are addressed and discussed with wisdom for guidance or
discipline/correction doled out. A time for families to "come
together", under the "natural cause" of breaking bread, both
"carnal and spiritual" for the good health of both "body and
spirit."
This event is
of the most dire importance because Scripture states:
Ephesians 4:26,
"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:"
To stay ones
wrath every time, prayer must be employed. We are brought to a spirit of wrath
during all times of the day by what we read, what's said, or just the ignorant
actions of other people. Many times inanimate objects cause us to
"react" out of character by not working or breaking down.
This is why we
"start the day" (evening) with the family meal followed by prayer
both corporate and individual (private) so that our "hearts can be stayed,
grace received, and wisdom gained" for every situation that will arise as
the "day" continues. This produces a maturing faith that when
completed fills our lack.
James 1: 2-4, My brethren, count it
all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;3 Knowing this, that the trying of
your faith worketh patience.4 But let patience have
her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
As
the day try’s our faith so the evening perfects our patience, and the perfect
work there of is “lacking nothing.” At the onset of a new day, the breaking of
bread, family communications, prayer, and the resulting bond that is
strengthened within the family, rest comes more natural, and the ability
through the “freedom” these things bring, prepare us for “meditating” on God’s
Word in the “night watches.” Surely then rest will be sweet and productive,
dreams and visions by the Holy Spirit will attend more frequently, and our “revelation
of Jesus Christ” will grow and mature under His guidance. These are the nearly
unspoken, untaught, or unpracticed things in the lives of many Christians today
as well as a lack thereof in the corporate church. This is a great hindrance to
the development of strong families which are to replicate Christ to a “lost and
dying world.” When will we get to the point that the Words offered in Scripture
are not “a suggestion” but the Word of God for our good and benefit. Did God so
lightly pen His Words to only suggest “a better way”? Or did he, by His eternal
wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit, have them written like they were the “bread
of life”? Real meat for those who “hunger and thirst after righteousness! I
declare that He had them written, by “men led by the Holy Spirit”, to be of
more nourishment than our carnal food that we thoughtlessly partake in daily.
And that for our temporal body’s sake which will perish in time, but His Word
feeds our eternal spirit which will reign with Him forever. So I ask here: which
is more vital to partake in? Which partaking more noble? Look to Moses who following
God was led into a mountain and did not eat or drink for 40 days and nights,
then returning back to camp disciplining the “children of God” had to return
for another 40 days and nights being denied the food of man but living off of
the “Word of God”, real meat able to sustain him and change his countenance.
And then there was Jesus 40 days in the wilderness, “having meat that you know
not of” with the angels attending Him when His ordeal was over. How many of you
need to be reminded of “that meat”? Look here: He was the “Word that became
flesh and dwelt amongst us for a while,” He was (is still) Emanuel God with us,
the Word in the flesh that still had to “sup, eat of, partake of, engraft of,”
the Word of God to maintain His strength as an example to us of what we should
do the same, daily, consistently, passionately, having our fill so our “cup can run
over.” When our cup “runeth over” it is an example, a nourishment, and a hope
for others around us, revealing “from whence our hope, victory, and strength
cometh.”
Many
religions talk about the way or a path, but this is the ONLY True “Way, Truth
and Life/Light” lived and expressed by His children, “not as under a bushel,
but as a light that shineth in the darkness, one that is put upon a hill that
cannot be hid.”
Did
you ever think that all this success hinges on the reality of God’s design “in
the beginning”? Do you see why His Word is real meat for His people, His flock,
His body? Do you see how starting our “new day” scripturaly, in the evening,
with the family meal can set the course of our “night watch” and prepare us for
the “day ahead”? Is it now proven that success for the “morning” is built on
this scriptural building block? Does this make you aware of the importance to
have an evening family time/meal so that we can receive grace through faith for
the “weeping that may last a night but joy comes in the morning”? Remember this
one crucial proof: “you are saved by grace through faith” Ephesians 2:8, but in
all things grace always comes through faith, it is an undisputed reality in any
Biblical application, no faith, no grace. Period, anywhere, anytime, any how!
All things done outside of faith is “sin” and then comes the “trusting in God’s
Word (Jesus) that we can overcome by grace “the sin that so easily besets.”
Again
this is the scriptural way to “start the day” in the evening with the family
meal as God has designed it.
God
bless and keep.
Love
J&E
in Tn
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