AT WORK IN THE DARK

"The Lord caused the sea to go back....all that night."  (Exodus 14:21).

God is always working in our lives, even in the dark....ESPECIALLY in the dark. 

It is difficult for us to see Him in the dark times of our lives.  Yet He is always there. 

For the children of Israel, it was not when they awoke to find that they could cross the Red Sea that God began to work, but rather He had been at work all night long...IN THE DARK.  Were they worried and fretting about what they were going to do? Probably.  Just like we do.  Yet all the time God was working.

And, notice it was ALL the night long that He was working, working til the light of morning came.  In our dark nights, God is working even though we cannot see Him.  He will continue to work til the light breaks through and the answers or solutions come.  We must just remember HE IS WORKING. 

Truly it is in those dark nights that we really come to know Him for it is then that we cling to Him, knowing that without Him we will never make it.  Isaiah 45: 3 says "And I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that you may KNOW that I am the Lord who call you by name".  God has treasures and riches He wants to give to us, but He reserves those for the dark nights of the soul.   It is there that we really get to know Him like we've never known him before. 

The next time you find yourself in the dark, just remember that God is working and He will continue to work IN THE DARK til the light breaks through.  You are never in the dark alone. He is with you, He is protecting you and He will bring you out into the light in His time.  "...weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Psalm 30: 5b

"All that night" the Lord was working

Working in the tempest blast,

Working with the swelling current

Flooding, flowing, free and fast.

"All that night" God's children waited---

Hearts, perhaps in agony

With the enemy behind them,

And, in front, the cruel sea.

"All that night" seemed blacker darkness

Than they ever saw before,

Though the light of God's own presence

Near them was, and sheltered o'er.

"All that night" that weary vigil

Passed; the day at last did break

And they saw that God was working

"All that night" a path to make.

"All that night", O child of sorrow,

Canst thou not thy heartbreak stay?

Know thy God in darkest midnight

Works, as well as in the day.

---Streams in the Desert