Psalm Chapter 30

Psalm 30: Morning Has Come

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. It is one of the most quoted lines in all the Psalms, and yet it is easily sentimentalized if we forget what the night actually looked like. David had been to the edge of the grave. He had cried out from a place where he wondered aloud whether the dust could praise God — a question so raw it borders on bargaining. And in his prosperity he had made the oldest human mistake: I shall never be moved. It took the hiding of God's face to teach him that his mountain stood strong only by favour, not by right. The psalm is a testimony, the kind you might hear from a man who has been desperately ill and is now, unaccountably, standing in the sun. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing. Not merely ended the mourning, but turned it — transformed the very material of grief into something that moves and breathes and celebrates. The sackcloth did not simply come off; it was replaced with gladness, as though joy were a garment God himself had chosen and fitted.

00:00 Lifted Up from the Grave
00:20 Weeping for a Night, Joy in the Morning
00:40 My Mountain Made Strong
01:00 Mourning Turned to Dancing
01:20 I Will Give Thanks Forever