‘God does His deepest work in our darkest hours.’ – A.W. Tozer
Have you sensed the darkness in these weeks and months of quarantine? The confusion and uncertainty externally has only served to highlight my own internal darkness. I am left with so few ways to numb, avoid or ignore when the distractions are removed, and noise is quieted.
But what feels dark to me is as bright as the day to Him (Ps 139:12). He who saw my unformed substance in the dark, weaving me together in the depths of the earth, calls me out of the darkness and into His marvelous light, by meeting me in the darkness (Ps 139:15-16), 1 Pet 2:9, Jn 1:9).
He is working even here, even now. Leading us with kindness toward repentance (Rom 2:4). Coming after our hearts with the invitation, ‘where are you? (Gen 3:9). And He is once again forming the unformed parts of our hearts in this land of deep darkness by shining the light of Christ (Is 9:2).
God, thank You, that You work even in the darkness, even in the darkened parts of our heart. There is nothing that goes unseen or unnoticed by You. No mystery or uncertainty in us, or in a world that is overwhelmed with a very real disease. Give us hearts that desire the light of Your holiness to illumine the darkened places in our lives. In Jesus name, amen.
To light,
AB