When Night is Past

“But when the morning was now come...Jesus...” ~ Jn. 21:4

How often I have toiled throughout the night, fishing for the answer to my problems, only to find after a barren night that the answer was to be found only in Jesus. When will we ever learn He is the sum of all things?

“Weeping may endure for a night,” but, when Christ comes, so comes joy. How many times in the “womb of the morning” has He shown forth His “loving kindness”? Is it any wonder then that David would “sing aloud of [His] mercy in the morning”?

Oh, dear child of God, tossed to and fro through a long, dark night of trials, you may know for sure that in His chosen season He will make Himself known to you. When we are most at a loss, and there is nothing left, then He will make known that we have the all sufficient Christ. And, as the song says, “Christ is all I need.”

For a Christian, the long night of suffering is not endless; but the joy that comes in the morning is.

by an Aged Saint

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