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Introduction to Summer Psalm

What was the longest night you have ever experienced?

Pastor Tyler Daniels Summer Series July-August, 2025 Sojourn Church

Maybe you were driving nonstop, hoping to get where you were going with minimal delay. Or perhaps it was a bleary red-eye flight across the ocean. Maybe you and your family were riding out the weather, lights off while the storm was still on. Or you lay awake, nagged by a thousand stresses: bills mounting, decisions looming, sickness unyielding, guilt weighing, heart heavy.

The nights of our lives can be long. Even if we’re all in this together, that’s not exactly a good-news message.

But! After every long night—whether it’s that one night or a whole season of nights—the morning comes! Every and all darkness has been dispelled by the dawn. Pain and sorrow and frustration can’t stay, since God has already declared, “Let there be light!” This summer, we return to the Book of the Psalms, and we do it with a common longing: after night, the morning; after dark, the light; after whatever sorrow, joy! Psalms 30-39 will remind us again and again that the God of grace will see us through. Whatever the threat from whichever threateners, His goodness and mercy and protection shelter us still, and the dawn comes! Maybe you’re just coming out of one of those long-night seasons in this very season. Maybe you’re still in the middle of it, wondering how in the world you’ll make it until morning. Or maybe you’ve got a testimony that remembers all the ways and all the times God’s mercy shone in your life— and showed you the way. This summer, wrestle alongside the Psalmist as he rests in the truth, and learn to sing together:

“Weeping may stay overnight, but there is joy in the morning!”