is not sick, the bills are all paid, the birds are singing, and the business is good. These are the morning times. The evening times often bring sor rows and tears. The shadows are fall ing with disappointment and frustra tion seemingly on every hand. So the Bible tells us to keep on sowing even when the shadows fall. You don’t know what God will do with the Word that you say and maybe years later it will bring fruit. I was in Havana, Cuba, one time some years ago holding a missionary con ference and a gentleman came up and said, “Dr. Wilson, I’m a pastor of such-and-such a Baptist church here in Havana and I’m here because of a little word you said 20 years ago.” One time, when I was preaching in Philadelphia, a young lady, about 30 years of age, came dressed in a nurse’s uniform. She said, “I’m a nurse in full-time Christian work be cause of a little word you gave to me in a hospital in Minnesota when you were addressing the workers there. What you said so affected me I went up to my room and knelt down making the Lord Jesus my Saviour. He has given me the privilege of serving Him in this manner. The Bible says, “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him” (Psalm 126:6). Drop a word in the barber shop, or in the daily pathway you may take. In Psalm 92:1, 2 we read, “It is a good thing to give thanks . . . to show forth thy loving kindness in the morning and thy faithfulness every night.” There are five types of kind nesses in Scripture. Loving kindness is just one of them. There is a kind ness based on love. If you put a dol lar bill in a blind man’s hand this isn’t loving-kindness. You have done it because you have pity for him. God loves you even though you don’t deserve it. It is His infinite grace and kindness that brings this about. Do you tell other people about this? Another verse about this time of the day is Psalm 30:5, “Weeping may
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A portion of the more than 2500 people who attended graduation exercises of Biola. endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.” This morning could be the morning of eternity. Weeping may be caused by a state of terminal cancer, or arthritis, or heart trouble, or something else of a similar na ture. There is no joy in life at all. But if you are the Lord’s and saved by grace, joy will come to your life. In the morning you will see His face. This will be a morning when there will be nothing ahead of us; when we will never again experience sor row, grief, or disappointment. You will be with the Lord forever and ever. In Isaiah 21:11, 12, we read the in teresting question, “Watchman, what of the night?” The watchman said, “The morning cometh, and also the night.” Have you ever thought how strange it is that people never ask you to prove that there is no heaven. They always want us to prove there is no hell. Here the watchman gives the glad news that the morning is coming. But he also reminds us that the night of darkness, the judgment of hell is coming, too. It is morning for the Christian and night for the unsaved. How is it with you as you read these words today? Are you eagerly anticipating the morning, or is all you have to expect the darkness and dreaded night? Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
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