Daily Devotional - By Faith Peay
 

     I was reading a little book by one of my favorite authors, Francis Frangipane.  He has probably deceased since the writing of his book, “The Days of His Presence.”  But his words still ring so true to me.  I was feeling so overwhelmed last week with all of the darkness surrounding us.  Floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, scandals, and shootings to name a few, were weighing on my mind.  And then I read this little excerpt, The Dawn, where he talks about the day of the Lord, “like the dawning of any calendar day, does not burst forth abruptly.  It is not pitch black at 5:59 am and then, suddenly, bright morning the next minute.  The night sky gradually recedes, retreating from the approaching rays of light. Even before the sun breaks, the morning star faithfully heralds the coming dawn, announcing to the world still in darkness that light is at hand.”

     Rev. 22:16 “All the glory belongs to Jesus!  He Himself is the bright morning star” When will the glory rise?  Just as the morning star rises while it is still night, so the glory of God shall rise within us when “darkness will cover the earth, and a deep darkness the peoples. Isa. 60:2.  Even as you read these words, the glory of the age to come, “which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27) already resides in your spirit.  Ours is an inheritance of glory, given to us by Jesus the night before He died.  He said, “And the glory which Thou hast given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity.” (John 17:22-23)

   The gift of God’s glory is the source and essence of true spiritual harmony.  Our unity is not the offspring of compromise; it is the consequence of Christ’s Presence.  It is His glory, which produces our unity, in turn causing the world to believe. (see John 17:21)  He is not only preparing us for His glory.  He is the One who has been invisibly, yet powerfully, bringing the church together.  He is preparing us for the harvest.  As a herald of the day of the Lord, the Morning Star of His Presence is, even now, rising in our hearts!” Amen

    Hope I didn’t ramble on too much, but I felt so lifted up and excited at the same time to know that the Lord is with us in the midst of all of the chaos.

Your friend in Christ,
Faith