I understand that some people are not morning people. I don’t understand such people. The morning is so fresh. To me there is a daily cycle that begins with the freshness of morning and ends with the satisfied exhaustion of evening – ideally after having served Him well during the day.
“Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:21-23
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:21-23
There is such consolation in these words; because no day is perfect. No morning is perfectly fresh; no evening reveals complete satisfaction in the work accomplished. In fact, for me some mornings are still stale and some evenings disappointing. But I know that the new day will bring another chance, a fresh start.
Some of this cycle is just natural; but for born again children of God it is also evidence of the continuing work of the Holy Spirit. For us, the freshness/exhaustion cycle operates on a spiitual as well as a natural level.
O. C. starts with a practical truth: “Sometimes we are fresh for a prayer meeting but not fresh for cleaning boots!” Without question, I often go to bed at night with determination to accomplish certain things the following day; only to awaken with a fresh motivation to complete a vastly different task. If we practice following these motivations, we discover they are often the gentle hand of the Holy Spirit pointing us in the right direction for our day. Sometimes, of course, it’s just us avoiding something we know we need to do.
That’s why O.C.’s advice is so important: “Guard jealously your relationship to God. Jesus prayed “that they may be one, even as we are one” – nothing between. Keep all the life perennially open to Jesus Christ, don’t pretend with Him. Are you drawing your life from any other source than God Himself? If you are depending upon anything but Him, you will never know when He is gone.”
Our relationship with Christ does so much more than save us; although if that were all it did, it would be more than enough. It also keeps our lives fresh, new every morning.
Become a morning person in Christ and
Be blessed.
Nick
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