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Memory Verse: "Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night..." (Gen.1:5, BBE)
Scripture Reading: Job 1:1-2:1-13; 42:10-17.
Without a proper understanding of the purpose of seasons and times, a heartfelt appreciation for the changing seasons will be almost impossible if not completely impossible.
As it is in the natural, rainy season show up for a purpose. So does the dry season. Also, day and night have their own unique purposes. If we don't understand the uniqueness of each of these, we will never appreciate them as they take turns to come.
Was it so even in the beginning according to our memory verse? Then little wonder is it if I have also changes in my circumstances from the sunshine of prosperity to the midnight of adversity. It will not always be the blaze of noon even in my soul concerns, I must expect at seasons to mourn my former joys, and seek my Beloved in the Night. Nor am I alone in this, for all the Lord's beloved ones have had to sing the mingled song of judgment and of mercy, of trial and deliverance, of mourning and of delight.
It is one of the arrangements of divine providence that day and night shall not cease either in the spiritual or natural creation till we reach the land of which it is written, "there is no night there."
What, then, my soul, is best for thee to do? Learn first to be content with this divine order, and be willing, like Job (in our Scripture Reading), to receive evil from the hand of the Lord as well as good. Study next, to make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. Praise the Lord for the sun of joy when it rises, and for the gloom of evening as it falls. There is beauty both in sunrise and sunset, sing and glorify the Lord. Believe that the night season of your life is useful just as the day is.
The stars of promise shine forth gloriously amid the darkness of grief. Continue your service to God under all seasons. If in the day your watchword is labour, at night exchange it for watch. Every hour has its duty, therefore continue in your calling as the Lord's servant until He shall suddenly appear in his glory- 1 Pet.4:12-14.
Ponder Point: The dews of grace fall heavily in the night of sorrow.
Action Point: Draw lessons from the current season of your life.
Prayer Point: LORD, as the seasons of my life change, cause me to first be content with this divine order and like Job, I receive the grace to celebrate the changing seasons of my life in Jesus name, Amen.
Scripture Reading: Job 1:1-2:1-13; 42:10-17.
Without a proper understanding of the purpose of seasons and times, a heartfelt appreciation for the changing seasons will be almost impossible if not completely impossible.
As it is in the natural, rainy season show up for a purpose. So does the dry season. Also, day and night have their own unique purposes. If we don't understand the uniqueness of each of these, we will never appreciate them as they take turns to come.
Was it so even in the beginning according to our memory verse? Then little wonder is it if I have also changes in my circumstances from the sunshine of prosperity to the midnight of adversity. It will not always be the blaze of noon even in my soul concerns, I must expect at seasons to mourn my former joys, and seek my Beloved in the Night. Nor am I alone in this, for all the Lord's beloved ones have had to sing the mingled song of judgment and of mercy, of trial and deliverance, of mourning and of delight.
It is one of the arrangements of divine providence that day and night shall not cease either in the spiritual or natural creation till we reach the land of which it is written, "there is no night there."
What, then, my soul, is best for thee to do? Learn first to be content with this divine order, and be willing, like Job (in our Scripture Reading), to receive evil from the hand of the Lord as well as good. Study next, to make the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice. Praise the Lord for the sun of joy when it rises, and for the gloom of evening as it falls. There is beauty both in sunrise and sunset, sing and glorify the Lord. Believe that the night season of your life is useful just as the day is.
The stars of promise shine forth gloriously amid the darkness of grief. Continue your service to God under all seasons. If in the day your watchword is labour, at night exchange it for watch. Every hour has its duty, therefore continue in your calling as the Lord's servant until He shall suddenly appear in his glory- 1 Pet.4:12-14.
Ponder Point: The dews of grace fall heavily in the night of sorrow.
Action Point: Draw lessons from the current season of your life.
Prayer Point: LORD, as the seasons of my life change, cause me to first be content with this divine order and like Job, I receive the grace to celebrate the changing seasons of my life in Jesus name, Amen.
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