How To Face The Darkness

 

...and by His light

I walked through darkness.

             Job 29. 3

Job's friends focused on

his circumstances

and what he did 

          to be struggling like that.

Job focused on

   getting through the unspeakable

          with the Almighty.

We all live at some point

      with darkness and storms.

How we respond depends on

   with whom we are walking

   and what we are holding onto.

If we grasp temporal happiness,

         or our stuff, or selfishness, 

   or idols we don't think are idols,

      we will go down with the ship.

God teaches us

     how to face the darkness

     and walk through it

   with a heart changed by Him.

God never intended for us

          to dwell there.

Seek God, listen, respond,

and take a step with Him,

   one and then another.

God guides us

              always right to Him.

The darkness will not always 

           be this way,

    but He is with us.

Our eyes don't just adjust,

         or we get used to it,

but we see and walk differently.

O LORD,

Hold our hands in these shadows

   and through this dark place.

Help us to trust You even here,

          even in this,

knowing You are with us.

Turn our eyes upon You.

Make our night turn to day

  and may we be changed by 

  Your Presence.

Empower us to

           see in the dark.