“(…) weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Psalm 30:5

Our anchor verse is a powerful word of encouragement for anyone going through the night season because it shows that difficult situations are not meant to last forever and it gives hope as to how it will end, i.e. in joy. I know it is more easily said than believed when one is in that season!

If you had ever ridden a bicycle from a steep descend to a steep climb, you certainly know that the nearer you get to the end of the climb, the more difficult it becomes to sustain the effort of pedaling the bicycle. What does that tell you? It simply teaches you that when the night season is at its severest, you are just at the point of change. The coldest winter is just before the spring, the darkest night is just before dawn. When a season is about to change, it is as if all hells break loose on you. Therefore, the moment you feel at the edge of giving up during your night season, remember that your deliverance is at reach. That is the worst time to give up otherwise you will simply waste all the endurance you have demonstrated since the beginning of the night season. And the saddest part of it is that you will thus recycle your pain for a new season for it’s in the nature of some seasons to get prolonged until you learn the lesson.

While waiting for the joy of the morning, please do this:

a. Ensure that what you are going through is not the result of an act of disobedience to God. If it is, sincerely repent and let God see and feel that you have learnt the lesson. In case it is not, then consider that season as a test of your faith and withstand it with joy, believing in God for the end to glorify him. Let this statement of Job inspire you: “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him” (Job 13:15)

b. Make sure you turn deaf ears to any analysis that will tend to portray God as unjust or describe faithfulness to him as a total waste of time. Satan will attempt to use people that are closest to you to make you doubt God and spoil your relationship with him to make you lose the reward of your endurance.

God bless you!