God transforms your sorrow into joy

"For His anger is but for a moment, His favour is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning."                                       Psalm 30:5    NKJV 

Each morning God's mercies are new (Lamentations 3:22-23). When Jesus was crucified, for most, hope and joy was lost. But three days later, Jesus arose and brought with Him new joy and new hope and a new day and beginning for all who trusted in Him. As Jesus told His disciples in John 16:20-22. God doesn't replace sorrow with joy, He transforms sorrow into joy, there's a difference.

Many times we let God down big time. We don't set out to do this, it just happens. This is mostly because we take our eyes off Him and go with the flow of the world. When we do this we open up a door for the enemy to step in and cause a rampage. Afterwards, we are left with the hopeless thought that we don't know how this happened; then we begin to go deeper into despair.

Take another look at our text today; it tells us that God becomes angry with us on these occasions but, this is only for a short time. As soon as we repent, His favour, which is eternal, kicks in and He forgives us. The big problem is, we find it difficult to forgive ourselves. The devil then gets involved in the situation and says such things as, 'Well, you've blown it now, you'll never be forgiven. What a mess and you caused it; call yourself a Christian.' He'll really put the boot in when you're flat on your back. Don't let Him, it's a new day. 'Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.' In other words, when you repent, a new day is sent. He transforms your sorrow into joy.

You know, we'll never get it 100% right - not even close, until we see Him face to face in Heaven. He knows our short-comings but He also knows our hearts too. He knows we want to live for Him and He also knows we will make a mess of things at times too. Stop beating yourself up. Peter did this when He denied Jesus (Luke 22:62). Be encouraged by this, you are not unique, you will mess up at times. But the great thing is, when you repent, Jesus' grace and favour is there with forgiveness.

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