I will go before you and
make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and
cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches
of secret places, that you may know that I, the LORD, Who call you by your name, am the God of Israel. Isaiah
45:3
“…God has taught me this lesson by experience and from His
Word, sometimes His glory is in the darkness…Everybody else wants to stand back
from the darkness (Exodus 20:21: So the
people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was),
I can remember a point in time telling God, ‘Everybody else wants to stand back
from the darkness - the problems, the pressures, the things you don’t understand’…Moses
embraced the darkness because he KNEW that is where he would know God in a way
he wouldn’t in the light. I told God, ‘I also will embrace the darkness – suffering,
pressures, pain, things I don’t understand, things that don’t make sense - because
I want to know God. There are some ways you know Him in the darkness; you don’t
know Him out there’…” Anne Graham Lotz
Be still and know He is God. He has treasures for you too in
this dark time. It’s here alone, broken, and without illumination that many
learn to hear His heart, not just His voice, His heart…
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