It's A New Day!

No matter how bad your problems are; the sun came up this morning. No matter how bad things may get during the day; the sun will come up tomorrow. War may break out this week, but the sun will keep coming up. Hurricanes and tornadoes may devastate whole communities and the sun will still come up and shed light on the disaster area.

If you lock your doors and close your drapes; the sun will still be there waiting for you to come out of hiding. You may go into deep depression and want to sleep for 48 hours, but that does not make the sun go away. It will always be there for you every morning.

No matter how dark the night, the sun gets up and says: “It’s a new day, let’s try again.” Maybe you are plagued with repeated failures; so what? The sun comes up with repeated consistency. If no one can count on you to do right, you can still count on the sun to be there to give you a new start every day.

But, it’s not just the sun that brings the dawning of a new day. God is even more faithful than some bright orb in the sky. He invented such consistency. He originated ‘new beginnings’ and ‘fresh starts’. He is there for you every morning, also. And that makes a difference.

Sure, you can deny He exists and shut Him out of your thoughts – but like the sun on the other side of the drapes – He is there, waiting for you to come out of your self-made cave. Even a groundhog has to come back out into the sunshine eventually. No one can hole up and hide from God forever.

You may curse the sun for melting your wax and hate the sun for hardening your clay, but it will still smile on you another day. You may hate hundred-degree weather and blame the sun for your heat stroke, but it will never hold a grudge. It will come up and drive back the extreme cold of those long, winter nights. Without the sun in winter time, the whole world would be a frozen nightmare.

Yes, you can count on the sun to be there for you, even when you get old. And it will always be there for your kids and your grandkids, too. Sure, you can blame God for a lot of things, but that only hurts you. When you get tired of hating, you will know that He never stopped loving. He will be just as ready to forgive you tomorrow as He is today. His love is consistent; it’s just that the clouds of doubt sometimes get in the way. But, no overcast sky can last forever. The wind of His grace will blow the heavy fog of discontent from your heart and you will once again feel the warmth of His love in your soul. The night of loneliness and pain may seem to go on forever and ever, but take heart, the sunshine of God’s love will rise again and take it all away. Keep hoping in God’s love and in the certainty of His willingness to forgive.