THE NIGHT ALSO IS THINE, O LORD

 

SATURDAY, 23RD DECEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

 

TOPIC: THE NIGHT ALSO IS THINE, O LORD.

 

MEMORIZE: “The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun." Psalm 74:16  .

 

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 74:15-23 (Amplified Version)

"You did cleave open [the rock bringing forth] fountains and streams; You dried up mighty, ever-flowing rivers (the Jordan). 16. The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun. 17. You have fixed all the borders of the earth [the divisions of land and sea and of the nations]; You have made summer and winter. 18. [Earnestly] remember how the enemy has scoffed, O Lord, and reproached You, and how a foolish and impious people has blasphemed Your name. 19. Oh, do not deliver the life of your turtledove to the wild beast (to the greedy multitude); forget not the life [of the multitude] of Your poor forever. 20. Have regard for the covenant [You made with Abraham], for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence. 21. Oh, let not the downtrodden return in shame; let the oppressed and needy praise Your name. 22.Arise, O God, plead Your own cause; remember [earnestly] how the foolish and impious man scoffs and reproaches You day after day and all day long. 23. Do not forget the [clamoring] voices of Your adversaries, the tumult of those who rise up against You, which ascends continually."

 

EXPOSITION

Yes, Lord, thou dost not abdicate thy throne when the sun goeth down, nor dost thou leave the world all through these long wintry nights to be the prey of evil; thine eyes watch us as the stars, and thine arms surround us as the zodiac belts the sky. The dews of kindly sleep and all the influences of the moon are in thy hand, and the alarms and solemnities of night are equally with thee. This is very sweet to me when watching through the midnight hours, or tossing to and fro in anguish. There are precious fruits put forth by the moon as well as by the sun: may my Lord make me to be a favoured partaker in them.

 

The night of affliction is as much under the arrangement and control of the Lord of Love as the bright summer days when all is bliss. Jesus is in the tempest. His love wraps the night about itself as a mantle, but to the eye of faith the sable robe is scarce a disguise. From the first watch of the night even unto the break of day the eternal Watcher observes his saints, and overrules the shades and dews of midnight for his people’s highest good. We believe in no rival deities of good and evil contending for the mastery, but we hear the voice of Jehovah saying, “I create light and I create darkness; I, the Lord, do all these things”

 

Gloomy seasons of religious indifference and social sin are not exempted from the divine purpose. When the altars of truth are defiled, and the ways of God forsaken, the Lord’s servants weep with bitter sorrow, but they may not despair, for the darkest eras are governed by the Lord, and shall come to their end at his bidding. What may seem defeat to us may be victory to him

“Though enwrapt in gloomy night, of

We perceive no ray  light;

Since the Lord himself is here,

’Tis not meet that we should fear.”

 

PRAYER POINT: LORD, shed your ray of light on my darkness and deliver me in the days of trouble and affliction in Jesus name.

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