May 14

I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. — Exod 3:8 BSB

“Weeping may last for the night, but joy comes in the morning.” The night may grow very dark, but the morning will surely come. “We must go through much tribulation to enter the kingdom of God,” but notice the word “through.” Even though “the valley of the shadow of death” lies in the path, we are only passing through it, and beyond it lies, “I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” After Egypt’s bondage came the “good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.” This pattern is constant. After the death of winter comes the life of spring. After earth’s sorrows comes heaven’s eternal joy!