Sometimes in our Christian path, we’re going through very,
very difficult
situations. One of these are, what I would call periods of darkness. What we want to do
there is to get help from God for
the dark. The dark may not be present today, but very
likely it will be present
sooner or later. God does not only give us truth for the situation
in which we
currently find ourselves. Very often God prepares us for situations yet to come
in our lives and the lives of others so the Spirit can bring to our remembrance
what has
been said perhaps years before. When God, in the wisdom of His providence, leads us through
periods of darkness…circumstances we cannot understand, circumstances upon
which God
does not shed any light. We say, “I am simply in the dark. I do not
know. I can’t understand.
I can’t understand why God allows this, does this, or
doesn’t do this.” We are in total darkness.
We pray for light and there is no
light. And yet we can go through a period of darkness while
having
the light of the ways of the Lord within, so while we are in the dark, the dark
is not in us.
This puts everything the Lord is showing us and teaching us in a whole different light.
The test is to walk out “in the
dark” what we saw “in the light”.
“Who is among you that fears the Lord, that obeys the voice of
his servant,
that walks in darkness, and has no light? Let him trust in the
name of the Lord,
and stay upon his God.” Isaiah 50:10
