So I heard a sermon this week about "delighting in the promises." Several of the things the minister said really hit home for me. First of all, that we are supposed to be delighting in God's promises. Not just enduring, not just "barely making it," but delighting. This journey with Jesus is supposed to be a delightful thing. And then, the idea that we are not just "standing on the promises" (as the old song says), but we are depending on the promise-Giver. We don't just trust in the promises, we trust in the One who made the promises! If His promises are good, then how much better must He be! One of the promises He mentioned was that of "daybreak." Just as in the physical sense, the setting sun each evening is a promise of the day to come, the darkness that sometimes enters our lives and our souls is a promise of the Light of the world that is Jesus. The promise is declared at dusk, doubted in the darkness, and delivered at dawn. I know there are many, many dark and terrible things that many of us have gone thru, and will continue to go thru, but we can take heart that the God of the Light, is still God in the night!