The Daily Stand: A Morning Devotional

Awareness.

The darkness is not winning. It is providing contrast. The darker the backdrop — the more visible the glory becomes. Today on The Daily Stand, Day 3 of The Gloaming Hour, we open Romans 13, Isaiah 60, and Luke 21 and talk about what it means to be awake to the hour we are actually living in. Not with fear. Not with despair. But with the eyes of someone who knows that the deepening gloaming means the morning is closer than it has ever been.

Longing.

You have been trying to name it for years. That ache that nothing quite reaches. That restlessness that settles in even when life is good. C.S. Lewis called it an inconsolable longing — and he said the fact that we feel it at all is proof we were made for somewhere else. Today on The Daily Stand, Day 2 of The Gloaming Hour, we talk about what it means to be homesick for a place you have never been — and why the One who planted that longing in you has already gone ahead to prepare the place that will finally quiet it.

Wonder.

A pink and lavender sky. A little girl who looked up and said — oh wow, Jesus is coming back soon. And a father standing next to her who looked at the same sky and saw beautiful weather. Today on The Daily Stand we begin a five-day series called The Gloaming Hour — and Day 1 asks one simple question: when did we stop seeing what our children still see?

The God Who Sees You

There is a lie that every dark season tells. It tells you that the distance you feel is real. That God has looked away. That somehow the weight of what you are carrying has put you somewhere outside His reach. Today on The Daily Stand, Day 5 of In the Dark, we open Psalm 139 and answer that lie with one of the most quietly revolutionary sentences in all of Scripture — darkness and light are the same to Him. He sees you this morning exactly as clearly as He has ever seen you.

Lament is not unbelief.

Everything I had hoped for from the Lord is lost. That is not a crisis of faith. That is a prayer — and God preserved it in Scripture for three thousand years. Today on The Daily Stand, Day 4 of In the Dark, we walk all the way to the bottom of Lamentations with Jeremiah and find the one word waiting for us there that makes the difference between bitterness and hope. Yet.