Darkness

This essay on darkness and hope really opened up my eyes.  We always tend to look for concrete answers on why things happen, but what we really need to do is just sit and meditate on a situation.  Worrying and asking where is God will only cause chaos when just letting the moment of darkness sink in will reveal a higher hope.

It is one thing to talk about getting through a time of darkness, but it is not until we experience it ourselves that we can honestly understand how to get through it with that hope.  Sometimes when we are going through a time of darkness, we often try to hide it.  Like hiding it will make it go away or something.  I like how in the essay it quotes “one must die to an unreal life before he can be born into the real life.”  There is a so called “perfect life” we like to try and make others believe we live; instead of embracing our human nature and realizing we all suffer darkness.  In reality we all have some sort of our own personal darkness.  Things we struggle with, bad things that have happened in our life and things we’d be ashamed of if others knew of. 

Last year I was struggling with something, and if I would have just looked to the people God put around me, I would have not lost hope in the midst of darkness.  We are created to help one another, and therefore our darkness should not be our own, but in a way shared.  This is what gets us through darkness and develops that hope. 

Darkness and suffering are never good words to hear, but they really do allow you to grow in your walk with Christ. We are pretty much required to go through darkness to live the full life intended for us.

Romans 5:3-5 “only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.”