During this week I thought I would share these thoughts (Lori)
Title: We Do Not
Belong to Darkness
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
There are times when we cannot see our way, and it seems that darkness is
about to overcome and hold us. It must have seemed so to the Christians in
Thessalonica. Paul spoke of their grave suffering because of having welcomed
his message. Must the coming of the light of God's truth bring suffering? Yes,
often it does, and the one who has received it with joy is plunged into
darkness. But darkness is not his master! He does not "belong" to it
(1 Thes 5:6 NEB) but is in fact a "child of light," having been given
word of things to come--resurrection, the sound of an archangel's voice, God's
trumpet-call, the descent of the Lord Himself. "God has not destined us to
the terrors of judgment.... He died for us so that we, awake or asleep, might
live in company with Him" (5:9, 10).
A small child is at peace even in the
dark if his father or mother is with him. He has company. How different the
darkness feels then.
Take the word of the Lord in your darkness. If He died to let us live in
his company, is He likely to abandon us just because things look dark?
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