For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. - 1 Thessalonians 5:5
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,"
12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. - Psalm 139:11-12
There is pain in the darkness, both physical and mental.
It's a place of not being able to see.
It can be literal or perceived.
It's a place filled with sorrow, the kind that swallows you up and leaves you breathless.
In it, you are seized with fear, it's the unknown, it's the letting go of the control we are convinced we have, but really don't possess.
It's that stomach seizing, hold your breath feeling that leaves you in turmoil.
Be humble before the Lord.
It is a temporary affliction, a testing of your spirit.
It matters not the ending of it.
We have God who never changes.
He has told us.
He has promised.
He will never leave or forsake us.
Cancer, emotional distress, physical ailments, addictions and whatever means Satan can use to destroy.
We were created by a holy God for His glory and purpose.
Our soul belongs to Him.
He is in control working all things together for good.
Trust, faith and hope, these things are found in the Lord.
Cultivate them, savor them and rely on them.
Don't waste your affliction!
Remember that Christ alone holds the key to eternal life, there is no other who saves!
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. - Ecclesiastes 12:7
14 For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,
18 to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
19 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all. - Psalm 103:14-19
63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
64 But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
65 And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father."
66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
67 So Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you want to go away as well?"
68 Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." - John 6:63-69
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,
2 since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do.
5 And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. - John 17:1-5
to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' - Acts 26:18
6 "I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
7 to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
8 I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols. - Isaiah 42:6-8
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