Psalm 30:1-5 (CB)

1 I will exalt you, LORD, for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me. 2 LORD my God, I called to you for help and you healed me. 3 You, LORD, brought me up from the realm of the dead; you spared me from going down to the pit. 4 Sing the praises of the LORD, you his faithful people; praise his holy name. 5 For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

GRACE SHALL LEAD ME HOME. This is a song of grace. Anger is never the final word (v 5), and so joy is always on the way, always coming to those who believe in Him. In Jesus this principle goes even further to “sorrow producing joy (2 Cor. 4:17; John 16:20–22).”Jesus’s grief and suffering produced joy for both Him and us, and now, when we trust in Him during dark times, our sorrow can also produce the joy of increased faith and spiritual reality. Troubles in this life are “light and momentary” (though they seem not); compared to the important and significant glory that we will enjoy for eternity, but they also “prepare” us for that glory, in the providence of God.

Prayer: Lord, your Word says that our troubles are “achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (2 Cor. 4:17). I can’t fathom all that that means, but I have seen the beginnings of it in my life. So do the work in me that can happen only when I trust in you as I weep. Amen.