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NASB | Lamentations 3:2 He has driven me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Lamentations 3:2 He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light. |
Subject: Is there a ligjt in the darkness? |
Bible Note: 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. |