Joy Comes in the Morning
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What about Joy?
What about Joy?
A Psalm of David. A song at the dedication of the temple.
1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.
3 O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
7 By your favor, O Lord, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed.
8 To you, O Lord, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me! O Lord, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
Have you ever forgot something really important?
1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.
3 O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
God has set us apart.
—> Have you ever forgotten why you worship God?
1 I will extol you, O Lord, for you have drawn me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.
2 O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.
3 O Lord, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; you restored me to life from among those who go down to the pit.
4 Sing praises to the Lord, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name.
5 For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.
—> God has set us apart. We are not in the depths.
—> Worship for God isn’t for those that don’t know Him.
—> We can’t assume worship. Everyone doesn’t get it and that’s ok.
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20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
21 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
22 So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
—> There are times we physically can’t worship and that’s ok. The key is to not make these moments of pain into life times.
—> Why is it worth the pain and the anguish because of the end result. Because of what comes after.
—> I’ve never had a baby personally. But I know that
—> Anger, pain, hurt, all these things are temporary, seasonal, of a moment. It is the joy that lasts, because it is the joy we dwell on and God’s joy we dwell in.
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6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
7 By your favor, O Lord, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed.
8 To you, O Lord, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me! O Lord, be my helper!”
—> (6) There is this innate call in us to think we can handle life on our own.
—> (7) you give me strength and when you hide your face I have nothing.
—> (9) But if you don’t help I’ll die and then I can’t praise you. It is still focused on us and giving us the power.
—> (10) Almost realizing that he wasn’t necessary, that he wasn’t essential for life David relents and focuses again on God.
—> This, I think, is the hardest thing about Christianity, acknowledging that we aren’t God and aren’t essential for life on this earth.
—> do we make the world better as Christians? Yes!
—> Does God love us? Yes!
—> Does God need us? No!
—> Its ok to feel this way...
—> Its not ok to stay that way.
27 “Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
Psalm 30:
11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.
18 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
What reason do you have to give thanks?
Are you alive? Give thanks!