For Darkness Is As Light To You

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

Psalm 139:7-12

Although our daughters smile back at us in photographs, the spirited personalities that lit up those smiles are nowhere to be found. They are everywhere – in our hearts, in our thoughts, in all those photos – but nowhere.

But Scripture tells us, in Christ, are daughters are not really nowhere. They are still with us, and when they leave, we too will leave at some point. We will be rejoined.

When any of our friends and family leave us, they are “with the Lord.”

We don’t see God in a physical form. We don’t have smiling pictures of Him on our mantel. If you look around your home, you may think He is nowhere, but just the opposite is true. He is everywhere!

Wherever we go on this earth, God is there. He’s there to guide, strengthen, and comfort us. We cannot go where He is not. We don’t see Him, but He’s everywhere. In each trial we face, that’s incredibly good news.

Our greatest comfort in sorrow is knowing God is with us.

Our Daily Bread – February 10, 2018