Saturday, February 09, 2013

IN THE DARKEST NIGHT


Sometimes it is difficult to see that God is really at work in the world.  The killing and stealing and destroying ways of the enemy are everywhere present, and it can get pretty dark out there.
           
Rest assured, however, God is at present and He is working all things after the counsel of His good and acceptable and perfect will” (Eph. 1:11; Rom 12:2).  In the Old Testament we learn ,"The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand.  The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.  The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul.  The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forever" (Psalm 121: 5-8).
           
Our call in the world in which we live is to see beyond the visible into the way of being lived out by Jesus.  He says to us that God is here, with us, moment-by-moment and day-by-day.  Come what may God is with us.  His grace is sufficient.  He will is perfect.  Our times are in His hands, if we will let them go to Him.
           
Corrie ten Boom, who has better qualifications than I have said this, “In the concentration camp they took all we had, even made us stand naked for hours at a time without rest, but they could not take Jesus from my heart.  Ask Jesus to come into your life.  He will give you riches no man can take away from you.”[1]
           
Even in the darkest night, God is here.


[1] Corrie ten Boom, Tramp For the Lord, (Fleming H. Revell: New Jersey, 1974), 48

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