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1 | Is there a ligjt in the darkness? | Lam 3:2 | Aixen7z4 | 101970 | ||
I must say I am surprised to find Jeremiah here in the darkness. He says (Lamentations 3:2,6) “He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light … He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old”. Had not God called that man to be a prophet? Was it not the idea that God would reveal his word and his will to him? The word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path. He found his words and ate them (whether before or after this lamentation, I do not know). The word was a fire in his bones, and heat without light is dangerous indeed. God was leading him. Why then this talk of darkness? Job also had been here, in the darkness. He thought (came to the conclusion, found out) that God, “He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way. They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man” (Job 12:24,25). Jesus is the light of the world. Those for follow him do not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie. I always thought that the man to whom the way seemed right when it was wrong was an unsaved man. But now it seems the saved man can be wrong as well. He makes mistakes. He misinterprets. He misunderstands. He thinks he’s right when he’s not right. The Lord guides him with his eyes and yet, a man’s goings are of the Lord and he cannot know his own way. He does not know the day of his death. He does not know what a day may bring forth. Even now I have no idea what answer you will give to my question, and I have an idea you will surprise me. Will I look for the light of insight and get the darkness of mindless verbiage? Looking for the light of reality, will I get the darkness of pretence? Whence this darkness? Someone will ask, “Is it perfection that you seek?” No. But I would like more of the light of his presence. And, Yes, I am saved and I read his word and I walk in the light of it and pray. And yet I have no idea how he will use you to enlighten me. Why does our God cause a Jeremiah and a Job to walk in darkness? I have a sign over my desk saying, “Trust God in the darkness”. I wonder if that’s what he wants. |
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2 | Is there a ligjt in the darkness? | Lam 3:2 | compudex | 102029 | ||
Footnote: your questions have ensnared my thoughts. Pondering on darkness. And into darkness. Perchance a preview, a taste, a minute glimpse, of weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. For what will it be like for those that do not come to the supper. What darkness will they suffer when God withdraws His absolute presence from them. It is a hard thing to consider because God is so much in this world now. What will it be like when His complete and total presence will be taken from them. Complete and utter darkness. With no hope. Never, ever! Why would I want to ponder on darkness? It shows me how much light there is. (Joh 1:5) And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Such was the state of man. Yet, while we were in such a state, through the darkness came the cross. Sometimes we need the darkness to see the light. Considering more on perfection: Like a man and his wife: they live together and become closer with each other until the man will start to speak and the wife will finish his sentence with the exact same words that he was going to use. They become to know each other, they become one. "And they shall become one flesh". Does this happen when they first meet? No. In time, being with each other, learning about each other, discerning each other, they are being perfected into one. Caring for one another, not seeing their own needs but rather the other's. "Men love your wives as Christ has loved the church." And with this kind of oneness when one of them dies, the other usually soon follows. Consider the dove, when one of them dies, the other pines itself to death. For they have mated for life. "I speak the words of my Father", says He. Jesus and the Father are so one that as the Father's words form Jesus speaks them. For He is The Word of God. "Father, why hast thou forsaken me.", what torment for one being so close. Did He taste that darkness? Peace to you! |
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3 | Is there a ligjt in the darkness? | Lam 3:2 | Aixen7z4 | 102081 | ||
Compudex: You are a blessing. Thank you for those thoughts. I hope to return to them again and again. The one about the darkness being a glimpse of hell is a gem. It is true. If we cannot bear to be away from him for a moment, what will they have to endure for eternity? It confirms to me that it is good to admit how we feel, even before them. Perhaps it can motivate them to seek him, to dread the absence of his presence. The one about the children of Israel in Egypt is a gem. I have often wondered how they felt, especially those who knew the word God had given to Abraham about the length of time they were to spend there. The ones who went into captivity must have felt it too, knowing that the seventy years had to be fulfilled. We will see the light again, of course. “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness. “Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined”. It has happened before, and it will happen again. It happened when he came the first time, and it will happen again when he comes again. In the meantime, there is darkness, and it seems to me that we are like Jeremiah, carried away in the darkness of this age. The only light we seem to have at times is the light of the word of God word. It is a light that shineth in a dark place. But Christians are a light as well, even as he was the light of the world. He said, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world” and he said “Ye are the light of the world.” And when a believer lets his light shine, the world is a little less dark. Sometimes they do that, and with your post, that’s what you did. We need more of that. |
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4 | Is there a ligjt in the darkness? | Lam 3:2 | compudex | 102093 | ||
Dear Aixen7z4, This forum has truly been a blessing to me also. This is the only one I have ever been to or participated in. By some of the questions I see here, I can feel some of the despair and doubt. Some have great words of wisdom that hits you like a hammer and really gets the juices flowing in your brain. And after thinking on some of these things, you sit back and say, God, why didn't I see that. And the answer you get is, "Because you where not ready for it until now." Bless the Lord that brings Light unto our souls. Images of suffering and grace. Most of the time we can't even find the words to express some thoughts. That is why when we pray, the Spirit groans in words we cannot understand. When that blank time comes in prayer where the words just will not come forth. There is a bodily convulsion inside and yet the words will still not come. Then audibly we hear that groan, pathetically, because there is insufficient language. That is the Spirit, the Spirit interceding for us. What grace! How could any say that the Lord does not love us? They have not tasted of this fruit, of this first fruit from our Father. How He must have ached when Adam hid himself. "My love, my love, where are you my love. I desire, I long to be with you. And I cannot find you. Where are you? Ah, there you are my love. Why do you hide from me? What have I done?" "You have done nothing my Lord. It was I, I that failed you! Oh, the ache in my loves heart. What have I done? Walking in the garden with my love, gone. My friend, the only one I knew and the only one that knew me and loved me. Oh, my love, what have I done?" What pain, as a wife would find out that her husband just cheated on her. "My love, my love, now is there a boundary between us. How could things ever be the same." I wish I could type as fast as some thoughts come to mind. I would like to be able to put them into writing, but I already know that I am not a writer. I know my calling, for I am a helper. And twice so far a vehicle for healing. All in all, all I can say is Thank You Jesus! Peace to you! |
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