All This Darkness is a Small and Passing Thing

 

For I know

that my Redeemer lives

and at the last

He will stand upon the earth.

And after my skin has been

thus destroyed,

yet in my flesh,

     I shall see God.

          Job 19. 25-26

Job is probably one of 

  the most avoided books

            in Scripture,

not that it is so unattainable,

      but unfathomable

                 in its truth.

And we fear the hard stuff.

But after all the harsh realities

   that Job endures,

he does not just point to God,

   but Job knows Him a little more.

Redeemer comes with a capital R,

  past, present, future tense.

God Himself is freeing us

      from these calamities

and drawing us to Himself. 

He is with us now

       even in the hard stuff.

He is also with us

   on a through line to the end,

which is actually

    a new beginning.

"All this darkness is

    a small and passing thing."

                 (JRR Tolkien)

Walk with Jesus.

He is the light.

     He is the Redeemer.

O LORD,

Every one of us struggles

   with something visible

            or invisible,

sometimes that which we 

   cannot even put words to.

We may not understand

     even a smidgen of it,

but we can know You.

We don't just think

     or imagine or believe,

but we can know 

  You are the living God.

And that reality

         changes everything.

Help us to live that out

     before others today.