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“THE MORNING COMETH”

J. Earl

John 21: 4, 5, 12 (to “dine”), 20–22, 24, 25

I want to refer to the watches of the night, issuing in the

morning which means for us the coming of the Lord. It is a

wonderful thing to have it before us; that is the real morning for

which we are waiting because when we see Jesus face to face

the morning will have come and that morning is the

introduction to God’s eternal day. All these things are before

us and one feels that the Spirit is urging us to be looking more

intently for the coming of Jesus.

These two verses in Isaiah, coming right in the midst of

prophetic utterances that bear on the governmental ways of

God with the nations around Israel, seem to stand out. It is a

very important question—“Watchman, what of the night?” It is

so important that it is repeated. We are still in the night,

brethren, but it is nearly over and the answer on the

watchman’s part was not that the night was slipping away but,

“The morning cometh”. Now may that reach our hearts; it is

coming nearer every day, every moment. The night watches

are nearly over and, as far as the saints are concerned, when

the night watches are finished they will appear no more for

ever. That order of things that God has in mind for us is linked

up with Christ and His precious work; night shall not be there,

no tears, no sorrow, no testings. The former things shall all

have passed away.

But at the moment we are still here and we are tested moment

by moment, and I think this question raises a challenge with us

as to just where we are in relation to the night and what our

expectation is, what our hope is, in relation to the morning. So

he says, “The morning cometh, and also the night”. That is a

solemn matter. There is a terrible night coming for western

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