Knowing God - Exodus 20:31

(from Pastor)

Moses drew near

unto the thick darkness

where God was.

Exodus 20:21

 

Do you know what my prayer is for you? Darkness. Pain. Horrible trials. And a deep and endless pit.

 

Are you cursing me yet?!

 

Just kidding ... I'm not really praying for pain and suffering! However, I do know from personal experience that I often grow the most in life (including growing closer to God) through life's darkest trials. Why is this? It's because when things go well, we generally like to take personal credit for our successes ... but when things go poorly, it's often then that we finally cry out to God. The great irony in this passage -- and in life -- is that God is very often found in the darkness.

 

Rather than praying for darkness, let's pray instead that we can start looking for God more fully whenever it's bright!

 

And let's also pray that the next time darkness comes, we'll open our eyes and start looking ... because God is never far!

 

In Christ's Love

a guy who wants a true night light  

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Exactly how long are you supposed to look?  And how far is not far?  And what about our night vision?  


A speaker once had us close one eye and hold our hand over it.  He then turned off the lights and had us open our eye.  We had better vision in the eye that was closed in the dark.  If you are in the dark and wait, you will be able to see most of the time.  But there is a dark so thick it is claustrophobic.  It is hard to know you aren't alone when you are in that 'thick dark' - the dark where there is no hope of seeing your hand inches from your face.  
(my apologies for the disconnected rambling of this...)