What
must you do when darkness comes into your life? Keep walking! Don’t stop! Haul
yourself up and do your duty to keep going in the same direction you were going
when the darkness came. What did God say to you before you went into the
darkness? What was your call when the voice of God was clear? Then do it still.
Keep on walking. Nothing has changed on the path except your perception of it.
Do your duty nevertheless, and keep walking even when the lights go out. Your
darkness may very well be a divine darkness that stops you in your tack with no
warning, nor any word from God concerning it. You are not the first one to walk
in divine darkness nor will you be the last. Isa. 50:10 says this, “Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the
word of His Servant? Let him who walks in the darkness who has no light trust
in the name of the Lord and rely upon his God. There is divine darkness that comes to those who walk with God and for some, it can nearly
wipe them out. If you are experiencing this kind of darkness
you will search your heart and find nothing, you rebuke the
devil, you ask for prayers, you listen to great preaching, you consume the Word
of God, yet
still nothing, no answers from God; just darkness. Tozer called it, “the ministry of the
night” while
Spurgeon preached about “the child of light walking in darkness.” The
experience is common among God’s children. It is not the kind of darkness
of wrong or guilt or demonic oppression. Nor is it sin. It is
instead, an inexplicable sense of loss and uncertainty. It is above all, a
withdrawn sense of the presence of God. Notice I said, withdrawn sense, underscoring the word “sense”, of God’s presence. While He has not nor, will He ever leave
you because of the divine darkness that you are sensing, it will appear to
you that He has. What you are going through is not new. It came to every man and woman of
God in Scripture that ever sought to live in obedience to
God. It came to Abraham as he stood waiting
for God to accept his sacrifice. Moses experienced it on the mountain as he
waited to receive the word of God for His people in the thick darkness the
scripture says, where God was. Job felt the divine darkness as he looked for
good and yet evil came upon him. David experienced bouts of divine darkness as
he tried to serve God. The prophets of God wept as they walked through their
own divine darkness. It came to the godly kings and they humbled themselves and
were broken even greater than before. It even came to the Son of God Himself as
He hang on the cross. So be assured that if you set your heart to seek God,
this darkness will also come to you. You will not escape it nor be exempt . It
is an essential factor if you are to walk and have a deeper relationship to
God. It will only come through the divine darkness of Christian experience. May I encouraging you today
sweet friend to simply hold on, and be not dismayed,
for there is nothing new under the sun! You are not alone in what you are going through. Though
you may feel as though God is sleighing you for a time, keep serving Him! Don’t
you dare give up. God will release in you the light and answers that you are
looking for, when the time of your darkness is to pass!
Loving on you today,
Bren
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