Sunrise over Alcatraz

“I will bless the LORD who has counseled me;
Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night.

“You have tried my heart;
You have visited me by night;
You have tested me and You find nothing…

“As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness;
I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.”

~Psalm 16:7; 17:3a, 15.

Sometimes we experience “dark nights of the soul,” a time when we feel like the darkness of trials in our lives has imprisoned us. But it is during the night that the psalmist is visited by the Lord and counseled by Him. And in the morning, when the night is over, when we are finally freed from the prison into a glorious sunrise, righteously we are finally able to see the Lord, in satisfaction.

“Take up your cross and follow me.”