Allow God to Use Your Dark Times

Allow God to Use Your Dark Times

Why is it that during the daylight hours, when we’re active and busy, our problems don’t seem as serious? But when darkness falls and the lights go out, our fears and worries loom larger. Perhaps it’s because we forget that we serve a God who never sleeps and is sovereign over our affairs both day and night.

Are you facing situations that cause you to lose sleep? If so, you’re not alone. For centuries God’s people have experienced what are sometimes called “dark nights of the soul.” Take comfort in the fact that God uses these times of darkness to teach us invaluable lessons we might never learn in the light. He desires to teach us things about Himself that we will only learn in the dark—when we are holding tightly to Him and He has our undivided attention.

Allow God to use these dark times to give you “the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the Lord, the God of Israel, who summons you by name” (Isaiah 45:3).

Lord, I pray You will fill my darkness with Your light and give me peace.

Stormie Omartian

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