Faithful as the Morning

There's a song that's been stuck in my head since yesterday morning. Phil Wickham makes a very valid point. One that hits home and makes more sense than I can even tell! Check out the deep beauty in these lyrics:

"Come close, listen to the story about a love more faithful than the morning. The Father gave His only Son just to save us.

"The earth was shaking in the dark. All creation felt the Father's broken heart. Tears were filling heaven's eyes the day that True Love died. The day that True Love died. When blood and water hit the ground, walls we couldn't move came crashing down. We were free and made alive the day that True Love died. The day that True Love died.

"Search your heart, you know you can't deny it. Come on, lose your life just so you can find it. The Father gave His only Son just to save us..."

Pretty intense, huh? At least, if you really think about the depth there it is! There is so much I could get into here. So much theology and Truth, emanating from Scripture and written into these lyrics. The thing that's been boggling my mind, however, is the very first line. "Come close, listen to the story about a love more faithful than the morning." How faithful IS the morning? Really?

Think about it - was there every a day you can honestly look back and say, "There was no morning that day. Just night, no morning." NO! That doesn't even make logical sense. A day cannot exist without a morning because the beginning of a day is marked by morning. How, then, could we tell if it were a day or not without the morning? Maybe you didn't experience the morning. Maybe you were asleep. But it is there. Always has been, always will be, until the day the earth no longer exists. Every morning you will wake up and get ready for work or move around the house, or whatever you do. NO MATTER WHAT! I can guarantee you there was never one single day you, your parents, your grandparents, and even your ancestors went without a morning. And your descendants will have it to. It can be counted on for sure!

However, there was this one day... The day the sun stood still. Joshua 10:12-14 say this: "On the day the Lord gave the Amorites over to Israel, Joshua said to the Lord in the presence of Israel: 'O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.' So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. There has never been a day like it before or since, a day when the Lord listened to a man. Surely the Lord was fighting for Israel!"
So as faithful as the morning is, there was a day it did not come... a night it did not come. A day continued and a night prolonged, but no morning for a full day. And yet we can always count on it, without any fault whatsoever. The morning came today. The morning will come tomorrow. But there was a day it did not come. Not so with God.

God's love is MORE faithful than even the morning that we can count on to come every day. But there was a time it, in a way, was not faithful (even though it was for good). See... God's love is more than that. There never was, is, or will be a time where His love is not here for us. Pretty powerful if you ask me! If only I knew how to truly express it with the power that it has in my head...


(Side joke: Ever feel like you're always catching up? Like you're always a day behind? Well technically you are! You can blame it on Joshua if you want. :P haha corny I know).