Colossians 1:10
Dealing with Darkness
Thoughts from Nate and Julie Ware
A few minutes ago before the dawning sunrise, the darkness could not have predicted the coming light and joy of the morning.
Colossians 1:10
Dealing with Darkness
Hope, what a wonder-FULL word! Hope, which the dictionary defines as “the feeling that what is desired is also possible, or that events may turn out for the best.”
For we, who continue the walk of faith, hope is much more, very much more, than just “hoping for the best.”
It’s sometimes really easy to imagine a world in which God has left us alone at best, or is ignoring us, at worst!
When a lonely “darker” journey seems to be taking over your life, then deliberately, intentionally, cast your eyes upon Almighty God!
It may be a fight to do so, but in every situation. “…fight the good fight of faith.” I Timothy 6:12 commands! “…but he that endureth to the end shall be saved,” Matthew 10:22, our Saviour promises.
Everything of this world changes, “everything”; God doesn’t. “Jesus Christ the same today, and forever”
Colossians 1:10-11 challenges the Redeemed in Christ to have a growing knowledge and a “strength with power,” so that you and I may have great endurance” to fight on, and overcome!
THERE IS HOPE! “For there is hope of a tree,” Job 14:7 insists, “if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.”
God knows how to show us, that in Him, there is Light through, around, and out of our darkest hour!
John 8:12 “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
1 Peter 2:9 ESV
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”
“Joy Comes in the Morning”
If you’ve knelt beside the rubble of an aching broken heart
When the things you gave your life to fell apart
You’re not the first to be acquainted with sorrow, grief or pain
But the master promised sunshine after rain
Chorus
Hold on my child joy comes in the morning
Weeping only last for the night
Hold on my child Joy comes in the morning
The darkest hour means dawn is just in sight
To invest your seeds of trust in God in mountains you can’t move
You have risked your life on things you cannot prove
But to give the things you cannot keep for what you cannot lose
Now, that’s the way to find the joy God has for you.
“Link to YouTube Video –
Whispering Hope”
