MORNING HOPE

Reading: Psalm 5:3

Last Sunday I was returning from breakfast to the church. It was balmy morning. When I had driven to the restaurant it was still dark and the trip was made difficult by a thick, low-hanging fog. The sun was up on that return journey. The fog was still present but the sunlight had begun to pierce it. But the horizon above that ground fog revealed a magnificent sunrise. Al-though it was an October Sunday morning, it made me think of an Easter morning.

Easter morning is always a powerful reminder of the hope that God brings—hope often clouded over by our everyday sin—but hope that is present nonetheless. The reminder of that hope is revealed in the Empty Tomb at dawn.

That Sunday morning my thoughts went to the words of David, “In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice: in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.” Morning is the time to set our mind on God and surrender our lives to His guidance and care. Morning is the time to remember the hope in which we live—and then begin living that day in that hope.
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