Sometimes the tidal waves of trial are breaking on the banks of lives all around you. Sometimes the force of it threatens to sweep you off your feet too. Wet with our own tears, pain tears through our hearts. Life is unfathomable at times. Even when you’re really just a distant observer of trouble, it can be difficult and the world so very dark. But the true light is already shining. The Sunrise from on High has come. Thank God for Jesus that we can herald His eternal salvation, the abundance of life in the midst of a world falling apart at the seams.

If the world is falling apart at the seams, our Bibles better be too.

The only way we navigate a world as broken as this is to put our own lives together according to God’s eternal Word. Without His Word, we will be the saved-lost. We wander without it. If the world is falling apart at the seams, we need to be on our knees. Without these disciplines of grace we will not fair well the torrential downpour of the enemy of our souls. We must fight the good fight and fight it well, with some soundness of mind and wisdom from God.

When the unthinkable things of life become reality in the lives of those around you, Jesus only is our hope and stay. And we can spend ourselves trying to reason out the unreasonable, or we can lay ourselves down in the arms of our God and entrust all to His faithful care.

I don’t want to spend my days trying to figure out all the whys of the great pain in the world…. I know all this brokenness hurts and our minds ache for answers but instead of spending myself on the torment of trying to reason out darkness, I will take my mind, sober for prayer, and lay down in the arms of my God. I will search out the wonders of my God and use mind to try to fathom all His incomparable goodness, because light always overcomes darkness. I can trust even as I weep with those who weep that my God is good and He will obliterate darkness with light and the light is in the world shining through my very person and through all who dare to hope in Christ!

I will walk about in Light and point with boundless joy to the Resurrection and the Life who overcame all the suffocating power of our sin and crushed the head of that serpent of old.

There is never a day without light and we are undoubtedly children of the day.

Wherever our faith filled feet trod may the darkness tremble for the One inhabiting us is the One that drives out the dark nights of the earth. And He is my King even my Father and our hope and our stay we are the steadfast immovable people who trust in God!