Darkness

July 3-4

Darkness 

When I am overwhelmed, you alone know the way I should turn. Wherever I go, my enemies have set traps for me. Psalm 142:3

Once I read a story….a teenage son in the family had invited a number of his student friends down from university to his parents’ cottage where they planned to have a barbeque on the beach. They gathered at the house and then made a descent through the steep woods and along the narrow path down to the beach below. That was fine. The friends had a great evening and sat around the fire until, of course, it was pitch black. No-one seemed to have thought about lights, no flash light, no fire and no-one seemed sure about how to find the path back again. However, one of the students was blind, and he led the others through the woods, up the steep hillside and safely back to the house. The blind man leading, the least likely of the group, was leading the way.

Here we are again, seven months into the New Year, some things have changed while others have not, and not one of us has any idea what is actually going to happen to us in the next few months. Today I want to encourage you with this one truth – whatever is coming, we can’t see in the dark, but God can. Only God knows what the future holds. And the great thing is that God, like the blind student, is not fazed by the dark. Darkness makes no difference to Him. He drives out the darkness in our lives.

‘When my spirit faints within me, it is You who know my way.’ We also can know that confident place with God, whatever is happening to us or around us. Someone once said, “I don’t know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future”. Yes! And I can be safe with God.

Prayer for today: God, thank You that You are there in every dark place of my present and my future, and You know the way ahead for me. When I feel lost, You oh God are always there to guide me. Thank You that You are my Safe Place and I can trust You. Amen.