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Is it morning Yet?

A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.  O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.   (Ps. 30- 1-5-kJV)

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I am sure that all of us can identify with the recent hurricane Isabel that swept through the Washington metropolitan area several years ago. I became a little upset and discontented after being in the dark for approximately twenty-three hours or more. Then suddenly, the electricity was on again. However, during the time I was on the internet the electricity went out again after only one hour of light and we where in complete darkness for the rest of the night.

 

It was Sunday morning, while spending my quite time that the Holy Spirit gave me the title of the message. I know he gave it to me because in my spirit, I was asking is it morning yet? I am sure that we can identify with that question – simply because with morning came light. Because a lot of us were forced to be in the dark for a long time, we looked forward to the daylight, we looked forward to the morning when we could see what we were doing and where we were going. As God began to minister to me, what he said was, there are so many people who are always in the dark.  As born-again believers, no matter what the circumstances are, we should always be in the light. We have the Holy Spirit who is with us and He is light. It is strange to me, how the trials, tribulations, and inconveniences of this life can take us out.

 

I’ll just talk about me, because I am sure it did not affect any of you like this. I murmured and complained in my spirit because I did not have natural light and could hardly wait until the morning came. I began to look at the circumstances in my life and realized that I was not even seeing the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of them. I was allowing darkness to consume me. There are some circumstances that come into our lives that; just like the power surges we had before the lights when completely out, we get warnings from the Holy Spirit, there are times when we ignore these warnings and then when the circumstances hit, we are totally unprepared. Just as some of us ignored the report of hurricane Isabel coming and did not prepare for that. God always sends us a warning, but do we always listen? (No)!!

 

If we would unplug our spiritual ears and open our spiritual eyes to hear and see God, we would not be caught off guard. For a lot of people, food was lost, stores had to throw away a lot of produce and meat, freezers were emptied because we neglected to prepare for the storm. We did not have flashlights, or candles, some of us did not have land lines so we would still be able to call someone if we needed to. We could have had oil lamps, charcoal, propane gas, and water and propane stoves for cooking and hot ice to keep our food if we had listened and prepared for the storm. We have no excuse not to be prepared, God always sends a warning, all week long the weather channels talked about Isabel and when it would hit, however, some of us, like myself for instance only prayed that it would not come nay our dwelling. Praying is always fine; however, preparation would have been greater.  I believe that God is trying to tell us to seek Him; sometimes it will take fasting and praying. Sometimes we may have to be prostrate before him, I do know; whatever it takes, we need to seek him and hear him more and more each day, and then we will not have to be concerned whether it is morning yet.

 

Jesus said He is light; it does not matter how dark we may think our circumstances are; Jesus is in the midst of them and He is light – there is always a way out if we look for it. We stumbled, hit our knees and stumped our toes as we fumbled in the darkness during that storm but with Christ, we know the way. The other thing that the Holy Spirit showed me during the blackout was when one thing is lost, something else increases. When we have no natural light to see where we are walking, our memory increases and we can visualize where everything in our home is – some of us were able to go downstairs without falling and go to the garage to get a flashlight. (my husband did). We can feel for things and know exactly what it is even in the dark because our sense of feel increases. God is truly amazing!! One of our sons, said to me during the outage; momma I don’t see how the Amish live like this with no electricity. But you know what the Holy Spirit told me? He said they have not allowed the conveniences of this world to spoil them. They know how to function completely with or without electricity. They are still able to see the light.

 

God does not have a problem with us having the conveniences of this world, however, He does have a problem with us not being able to see the light in the midst of every dark situation. Jesus is light, and wherever we go we must take the light with us. This was my prayer while I know it was very hard for a lot of people during that outage, I did pray for those who know Jesus as Lord and Savior that it caused us to take a good look inside of ourselves and re-examine our priorities and to set new goals, so that we can focus on the right things and know with certainty that we are never without light – we don’t have to wait until it’s morning the light is within. If you are in the midst of what you think is a circumstance or situation that you cannot see your way out of, look from within, there is light and yes, it is morning!!

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