Sunshine After The Rain

Psalms 30:5 “…Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning” (ESV)

The weather forecast for this past weekend called for thunderstorms beginning on Friday around mid-day and continuing all-day Saturday and Sunday. Nothing extraordinary about the weekend predictions; rainy weekends have been forecasted many times before. Very few people (if any) anticipated the record-breaking downpour we experienced. A state of emergency was declared in many areas of our state as many homes and businesses were flooded. The devastation caused by the forty-eight hour downpour catapulted Nashville and the surrounding middle Tennessee area into the local, regional, and national news headlines. But the workweek began on Monday morning in a very optimistic way—the sun was bright and shining! The beautiful sunlight and eighty degree weather we’ve experienced the past two days have been welcomed here in Middle-Tennessee—more especially after such unseasonal rain.

There are times when we’re faced with adverse situations that are totally unexpected. There have been seasons when the troubles of life caught me totally by surprise. But the good news is that trials, tribulations, and traumas are not terminal—they’re temporary. Thank God that the storms of life eventually “pass over.” And after every storm, there’s a bright cloud somewhere. The Bible says that “weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” (Psalm 30:5)
Regardless of who you are and what you’re going through, I believe by faith that God is turning things around in your favor.

Let’s Pray:
“Father, I pray that You’re turning things around in the life of the person reading this devotional. I pray that You’ll help them to ‘hold on til their change comes,’ in Jesus’ Name, amen.”

Daily Prayer:
“Oh, that You would bless me indeed,
and enlarge my territory,
that Your hand would be with me,
and that You would keep me from evil,
that I may not cause pain!”


The Prayer of Jabez, I Chronicles 4:10