The Hard Times Are Only Seasonal

SCRIPTURE: Psa. 30:5b Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.
OBSERVATION: When we are in a painful time in our life it seems like, if feels like, it will last forever. The truth we must hold on to and not let slip away is that just a surely as night follows day and spring follows winter, if we can hold on, joy will come. No season of hardness is permanent. It is only a season.
APPLICATION/CONFESSION: I must never give into the false state of mind that says; "this is how things will always be". Joy comes in the morning--that is something to hold onto in the hard times.
PRAYER: Lord, thank you that you bring joy in the hardness and that you give hope in the hard times. Never let me despair. Remind me that morning is coming.