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Monday... Just longing for the Sun to come up.


Monday... Just longing for the Sun to come up.

I never have been a sentrie at night and had a longing for the Sun to come up so you can go home and go to bed. I mean, you are out there walking around and you really can't see anything and you are doing everything you can to stay awake. I can see that could be rough. I can see how your longing would help you handle the darkness.

Well the writer of Psalm 130 says in verses 5 & 6 (NLT), "I am counting on the Lord, yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word. I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes, more than sentries long for the dawn."

You're out there walking, waiting for the Sun to come up. Now you have put your hope in the fact that when the dawn comes something new will happen. For one you can see. You're counting on it. And for another, you can go home and relax and go to bed.

"I am counting on the Lord, yes I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word."

I have never been to Alaska. I have been in 49 states and Alaska is my last one and I'm hoping to get there in the next few years but I've heard that at certain times of the year the Sun doesn't come up, no matter how much you long for it, it doesn't come up. Now what about that sentry who doesn't know that the Sun will not be coming up. He has put his longing on something that isn't going to happen. 

"I am counting on the Lord, yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word. I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes, more than sentries long for the dawn." 

Let me tell you from experience, you can count on the Lord, you can put your hope in the Lord no matter what someone else may say. Maybe you are going through a very dark time in your life right now and you are not sure that the dawn is ever going to come. Please, just remember to do this, "I am counting on the Lord, yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word. I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes, more than sentries long for the dawn."

You can count on him. You can count on the fact that God's Son is going to bring light into your darkness. Just put your hope into his word.

Maybe you need to put this verse somewhere so you can see it in your darkness. "I am counting on the Lord, yes, I am counting on him. I have put my hope in his word. I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes, more than sentries long for the dawn."

The Amplified Bible says, "I wait [patiently] for the Lord, my soul [expectantly] waits, and in His word do I hope. More than the watchman for the morning; more than the watchman for the morning." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning 

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