I thought because we have several flower beds to work and plant before the showers arrive. At least, that was what I thought until I read the first three verses from dailylightdevotional.org which led me to all of I Cor 2… And last evening after attending and being greatly blessed by the first of Daniel Gerber’s Abiding worship services, all from seeds planted at the Pittsburg youth convention when he was a high school senior. I came home for a late supper and while scanning some new for me but old devotional books, I found this unique one that intensely resonated with my spirit as I’m been researching personal spiritual disciplines, this one titled “Joy in the Morning based on Psalm 30:5 “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” in David Jeremiah’s “Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God.” 2002 Jan 25 quoting,
“It’s interesting that David follows a pattern of looking at the day that was begun in the creation account in Genesis. He says that weeping comes in the night, but joy comes in the morning. If you remember, when God created the heavens and the earth, He said, “the evening and the morning were the first day” (Genesis 1:5). We think just the opposite, don’t we? We think of a day as the morning followed by the evening.
I think there are wonderful truths embedded in God’s perspective on life. If you will look at your day as the evening and the morning instead of of the morning and the evening, you will begin your day in the evening by meditating on what you need to accomplish the next day, and asking God’s blessing on it. Then He is free to work in your heart and mind as you sleep to prepare for accomplishing those things. When Christ returns, there will be no more weeping. Weeping is ours during the night, but eternal joy is coming in the morning of Christ’s return.”
mle … These italicized words from above will no doubt cause me to evaluate and rethink the way I schedule my life. It appears I’ve been blindsided/broadsided! Perhaps this is why the Jewish Sabbath begins at sunset Friday evening and ends at sunset Saturday evening? Interesting!
Now for the dailylightdevotional.org scriptures before I Corinthians 2:
May 25 MORNING
How great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee! Psa. 31:19
Since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. Isa. 64:4
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. I Cor. 2:9, 10
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 (MSG)
1 You’ll remember, friends, that when I first came to you to let you in on God’s master stroke, I didn’t try to impress you with polished speeches and the latest philosophy.
2 I deliberately kept it plain and simple: first Jesus and who he is; then Jesus and what he did—Jesus crucified.
3 I was unsure of how to go about this, and felt totally inadequate—I was scared to death, if you want the truth of it—
4 and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else. But the Message came through anyway. God’s Spirit and God’s power did it,
5 which made it clear that your life of faith is a response to God’s power, not to some fancy mental or emotional footwork by me or anyone else.
6 We, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground, but it’s not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts that will be out-of-date in a year or so.
7 God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene.
8 The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross.
9 That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it— What God has arranged for those who love him.
10 But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you. The Spirit, not content to flit around on the surface, dives into the depths of God, and brings out what God planned all along.
11 Who ever knows what you’re thinking and planning except you yourself? The same with God—except that he not only knows what he’s thinking,
12 but he lets us in on it. God offers a full report on the gifts of life and salvation that he is giving us.
13 We don’t have to rely on the world’s guesses and opinions. We didn’t learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus, and we’re passing it on to you in the same firsthand, personal way.
14 The unspiritual self, just as it is by nature, can’t receive the gifts of God’s Spirit. There’s no capacity for them. They seem like so much silliness. Spirit can be known only by spirit—God’s Spirit and our spirits in open communion.
15 Spiritually alive, we have access to everything God’s Spirit is doing, and can’t be judged by unspiritual critics.
16 Isaiah’s question, “Is there anyone around who knows God’s Spirit, anyone who knows what he is doing?” has been answered: Christ knows, and we have Christ’s Spirit.
Blessings to you and your plans for this ’24 Memorial Day Weekend!