My friend encouraged me yesterday. The jist of the conversation follows…
It is O.K. to enter a spiritual fog because we know what we believe. The truth remains whether or not we feel it. It must be grounded in our lives so that we can battle to believe when the darkness comes. We need friends and loved ones to preach the gospel to us each day because we’ll forget the awesome, life-giving truths of it before we go to bed.
So are you in a spiritual fog? I am currently. Even so, I read a quotation from Streams in the Desert that encouraged the socks off of me yesterday. It follows: “We do not see… We are not able to discover any beauty, any possible good in our experience. Yet if we are faithful and fail not and faint not, we shall some day know the most exquisite work of all our life was done in those days when it was so dark.” J.R. Miller
Dear brother or sister, be faithful during these days. Reach out for help and cry out to God to help you believe. The hope of Christ will be an anchor for your soul when days seem darkest. And when you least expect it, the noonday will shine forth gloriously bright and God will show you what He did to glorify Himself in these dark days. It might be in the next life, but it will be worth every tear and heartache.
Journey on Christian and remember that He is leading you further on…
Note: One of the most helpful books I own is a little devotional book called Streams in the Desert compiled by Mrs. Chas E. Cowman. It’s contents contain jewels from Charles Spurgeon, George Mueller and many other heroes of the faith. The entire theme woven throughout is God’s redemptive work in suffering. It has been a friend to me many a lonely night.
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I love that book also. Great read! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and struggles!