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Weeping Endures for the Night


Psalms 30:5 – ““For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.”

            The well-known Bible expositor, John Phillips writes, “God’s day always begins with a night."  In the Old Testament and even today, the Jewish people begin the new day at sundown.  The Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday and ends at sundown on Saturday.  There is a definition of this principle in Genesis 1:5, “And the evening and the morning were the first day.”  When darkness falls around us it means God is getting ready to start a brand-new day.

The Psalmist David writes these inspired words, “weeping endures for the night.”  He had experienced many nights of weeping.  This powerful Scripture is more than just a comforting Scripture.  It is a prophetic warning.  All of us have or will pass through the night season of weeping.  Many of you will have an appointment with the midnight hour.  When you walk through these night seasons the enemy will come and whisper, “The sun will never shine again.  God has failed you.  You are abandoned, left to your troubles and miseries.  Where is your God now?”

I have experienced the midnight, on a personal and professional level. I have wrestled with those questions.  I have asked in these dark times, “Has the morning been postponed?”  The night of trouble lingers long, the menacing shadows of sorrow seem as if they will swallow us up.  Though the night tarries, there is good news.  What is this news?  The night season is only temporary.  Our weeping will vanish, and the night will turn to day.  Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

I have often wondered why God allows us to pass through the night seasons.  Why does God begin each new day at night?  He uses these times to teach us to totally trust Him in every situation.  II Corinthians 5:7 says, “We are to walk by faith, not by sight.”  The Psalmist penned these words in Psalms 37:5, “Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.”


Your night season is almost over. Dawn is about to break.  The light is going to invade the darkness and God is going to give you joy to replace your weeping. He is going to turn your night of weeping into a new day of joy and rejoicing. 

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