David, who is the author of this psalm, had his fair share of weeping nights and joyful mornings. He went through weeping nights when King Saul was seeking to take his life, but joyful mornings came when King Saul was killed in battle, and David occupied the throne as King. He went through weeping nights when his adultery with Bathsheba was hidden, but experienced joyful mornings once he confessed his sins to God. David experienced weeping nights when his own son Absalom chased him from his throne, but experienced joyful mornings when he returned to Jerusalem. Because of David’s joyful mornings, he was able to write this psalm of thanksgiving, and celebration of God’s deliverance.
We’re not quite sure from which experiences in life David wrote this psalm, but we do know that David had a reason to praise God. We know that David had endured some weeping nights, and because God brought him out, he was able to praise God for the joyful mornings.
What are you weeping about today? What is it that causes you distress and grief? What brings you mental aguish and pain? What is it that keeps you from getting a good night’s sleep? Is it your job? Is it a relationship? Are you struggling in some way? Whatever is causing you to weep, God knows all about it.
Here's the thing: the longer we dwell on the night, the farther we remain from the joyful morning. Do you know that you may be the reason why you’re still in weeping nights? If you’re trying to fix a situation that you have no control over, then as long as you do so you will remain in your weeping night. Maybe you haven’t completely turned your problems over to God, if you haven’t you will remain in your weeping night. When we allow God to have control in our weeping nights, then we will be able to clearly see the joyful morning approaching. But to better understand the night season and to clearly see the morning approaching, we have to know what our weep is.
When the sun sets and darkness takes over the sky, 8 to 9 hours later, the sun starts to rise again. The sunshine erases the darkness from the sky. David uses the night to show us that our weeping is temporary, the night isn’t going to last. In this passage - the Word of God promises that our weeping doesn’t last forever.
We don’t know how long our nights will last, but if we just trust God and know that all things will work together for our good, it really doesn’t matter how short or long the night is. God will be right there with us throughout the entire night, so that we can rest in weeping nights.
David praised God for delivering him from all his troubles and pain, and he encourages us in this psalm to hold on and hold out, because although you’re weeping right now, joy will come in the morning.
But thank God for joy in the morning. When joy comes, God will turn winter nights into a summer days, sighing into singing, grief into gladness, mourning into music, bitter into sweet, and our wilderness into a paradise. What are you waiting for, praise God right now, because we have the promise that weeping is temporary and joy will come in the morning. In contemporary language, what David was trying to say is that troubles don’t last always.
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