New Light

Walking barefoot isn’t all it’s cracked up to be … especially in the dark! During a shoeless trek across the dark yard one time, I stepped on a big old fat toad – yuck! That wasn’t nearly as memorable, however, as stepping on that matchbox car many little-boy-years ago. Ouch!

Oswald Chambers says this about darkness: "Sometimes God puts us through the experience and discipline of darkness to teach us to hear and obey Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and God puts us into 'the shadow of His hand' until we learn to hear Him (Isaiah 49:2). The darkness is a lonely place -- it must be faced alone no matter how many others are there to encourage you. The darkness is a painful place -- answers elude the heart and mind, and tears rule both. The darkness is a quiet place -- no longer can sight be relied upon, only listening. To God, however, the darkness is a place where He needs us to be at times in our lives. It is there in the darkness where His voice is most audible, most intelligible, most piercing ... best heard. The darkness can be for the Believer a place of growth, of refreshment, of understanding; a place where we are completely alone with and vulnerable to God. All of a sudden, the darkness takes on ... New Light!