Nights Are Most Painful
What is it about the night that makes your pain so much stronger? Why is it you’re so exhausted all day, but then can’t sleep so easily at night? Why do things seem so much more unbearable at night? I think I’ve got some answers to those questions.
One, its in the stillness of the night that you have plenty of time to think. For many years it’s been said, “an idle mind is a devil’s workshop.” The more you ponder things the more they become your reality. It’s often at night that the things that worry you most consume your every thought.
Secondly, it’s usually at night that you are forced to feel. Maybe work or other busyness serves as a temporary distraction from the pain. Maybe during the day you can put your pain on a shelf in some ways. Maybe it’s only at night that you can’t escape where you are, how you feel, and the pain that surfaces your present reality.
Thirdly it’s often at night that things have just really built up. Throughout the day we usually seek to put mind over matter. We simply do all we can to live a normal life. Maybe during the day we seek to bury our pain while every moment it just keeps building.
All I know is my pain always seems greater at night. It has a greater hold of my mind and body. Therefore, I have to remember that the night doesn’t last forever. That while my pain may feel greater at times God is still good all the time. Therefore, I just need to hold on knowing regardless of how I feel in the night hope comes in the morning.
“For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime! Weeping may last through the night, but joy comes with the morning.”
Psalm 30:5
Written: 10/18/17
Pastor Craig Crosby 