Light is light,
only because darkness
is darkness.
If there were no darkness,
light would not be
known.
Darkness becomes the servant of
light,
for those who choose
light over darkness.
Frequently God must allow darkness,
in order to show us
light.
Else we would continue in darkness,
or at least in the
shaded place,
thinking it to be
light.
It is in the darkness,
the times when we
cannot see where to place our steps next,
that God speaks.
Or - - is it that
only then we have
listened for His voice?
He would prefer it to be otherwise!
He despises darkness more than we,
for He IS light,
and in Him is no
darkness at all.
When His chosen ones,
call darkness or
shadows light;
When they believe their way
is the way of God,
but it is not
perfectly so;
He will allow them to see real
darkness,
in order that they may
see real light.
For some the path seems strewn
with broken darkness.
Others seem to travel along so
easily.
But God has not called all alike,
and those whom He has
chosen
for His fullness,
Must expect those experiences which
reveal
every unsurrendered
portion of their heart.
The depth of agony in the darkness,
is not so much an
indicator
of the wretchedness of
their heart
as compared to other
hearts.
It is indicative rather,
of the depths of
purity
that God is bringing forth
more and more
each time darkness breaks
into light.
One must compare his heart only,
with the heart of
Jesus.
In error we compare our heart
with that of others.
We question the circumstances
which God has allowed
to come into our life,
to shape our hearts to
be like His Son.
God is both mysterious, and known,
and so His ways.
We can anticipate His actions,
yet find ourselves
surprised and amazed.
It would be a paradox,
except that God is
God,
and man is man!
It is not in man,
to direct his own
steps.
How much more vain then,
to think that he can
order
the steps of God!
The counsel of man
is wrought with
ignorance and selfishness.
Wisely does God take counsel
only with Himself
in directing the
affairs of yesterday,
today,
and tomorrow.
He acts according to complete
knowledge,
of what is eternally
good and true.
He can stand at either end of history,
and see the other end,
all in a glimpse.
Man is precious in the sight of God.
Loved enough
to be purchased with
royal blood,
and adopted into the
royal family.
Yet each life is but a breath.
Dust.
In God's eyes precious but brief.
One of billions.
Yet in arrogance,
and with an
inappropriate sense of importance,
Man would rise up
and require God to
shape history
around his own needs,
albeit frequently, selfish
desires.
In the end God is God.
The Great I AM,
is still the Great I
AM.
The sun will rise,
and the sun will set.
Eternity will be eternity;
But man will come
and man will go;
Because
God has ordained it to
be so.
To those who have
received life through
the Son;
Mysteries will be fully revealed
and all of God will be
fully known
in that Day when they
pass
into the light of His
eternal glory
in the life beyond
this one.
But more of the light
of the knowledge of
God
awaits them even today;
If they allow the darkness of their
sorrow
to break forth into
the light
of the knowledge that
in all
HE REIGNS.
This revelation will become a
lodestar.
When it goes from the mind
to the heart,
it becomes the
assurance of peace.
It is the bedrock of rest
and the foundation of
hope.
Trust springs forth as a fountain,
refreshing the soul each
time a new desert appears.
Future battles will be fought
differently now.
A new level has been reached.
The weapons of peace
rest
hope
and trust
are brought to bear
upon every darkness
which would prevail
upon the child of
light.
And therein lies the victory
Therein lies the light
of the present
darkness
To all who will walk in it!
Romans 11:33-36, Hebrews 13:20, 21
AMEN!
