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Are You In The Dark?
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. Matthew 10:27 -- "What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light;
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and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops."
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. Semi-official notice: Christianity does not consist in a continuous
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experience of victory, light and joy. Sometimes it's pretty dark out.
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. "What? Do you blaspheme the noble theology of success?" No, just facing
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facts: at times I don't feel so great and full of light, and I think that at
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least once in a while there is a legitimate reason behind it.
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. I don't think that the Lord wants to protect us from all the unenjoyable
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experiences and depressing times that life naturally tends to bring our way.
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He does offer the grace to endure and come through them not having given up
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faith and hope, but I believe also that he actually wills for us to go through
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some dark times so that he can tell us something in the darkness. There are
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things he wants us to learn and ways in which he wants us to grow and mature
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that we can't fully receive except in times of hardness and difficulty.
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. Is it sometimes dark in your life and you don't know why? If not, you're
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either not normal or not being honest. But if so, remember: He IS with you,
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although possibly incognito. He may be trying to reveal himself to you in a
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new way ("What I tell you in darkness..."), to bring you into a greater depth
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of maturity and faith. He is there, but the darkness makes it hard to see.
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We need to be more spiritually sensitive, so we might hear when we can't see.
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Maybe it's that sensitivity itself that he's trying to develop in us by
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placing us in the dark.
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. Have you heard something from Christ during a time of darkness? Have you
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benefited and grown through difficult and depressing experiences? "That speak
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ye in the light." After the darkness has passed and we are walking in the
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light again, we need to remember that others also pass through the darkness
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and can benefit from our empathy, understanding, comfort and help.
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Charles Shelton
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Computers for Christ - Chicago
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