Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Dear God,

There is only one way to deal with darkness when it comes.  That is to trust you.  Usually we fight the darkness as if it is a larger enemy than our capacity to deal with it.  We let darkness make us afraid and powerless.  But is this truth?  Is the darkness greater than we?  Perhaps but not with God.  Biblical writers say that Jesus believed the light and the darkness are the same.  Why because with you the darkness is as light.

The darkness can be anything from nighttime to a terror facing us.  Darkness can come when we are anxious or afraid.  Darkness can come if we are confused or frustrated, when something seems out of our control.  How can we combat this darkness?  Trust in God.  Trust in you can give us courage, strength, hope, insight and determination to do what seems impossible.

There are a million examples of trust in the face of fear, biblical, experiential and psychological.  Taken from our own lives, we can reflect upon times when a little trust went a long way to help us.  If we dig deeper into biblical and historical figures, we will discover so many who trusted in their difficulty and found a way to overcome the darkness.  Light is light and always will be.  No darkness can overtake it!

Embolden us

to trust you,

O God.

Show us

the way.

Teach us

to walk

with you

so trust

is not

far off.

Love, Andrea