“Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.” {Micah 7:8, TNIV}
Micah writes for Israel….
They’ve fallen and they’re sitting in darkness.
But.
They’re gonna get back up.
And, interestingly enough, Micah doesn’t say God was going to remove the darkness nor does he say God planned to pull them out of it.
He simply said, the Lord would be their light…in it.
I guess sometimes I wish He’d wipe my darkness away.
Then again, He may be leaving it there to protect me.
{Imagine that.}
Or…as Gary says in Scary Hope, “The thing you think is the big deal may, in the end, not be the deal at all. Paul spent ten years planting those churches, doing a glorious, exciting work taking the Gospel where it had never been… Then, readying a trip to headquarters in Jerusalem, his friends warned him that all his radical church planting was getting him in trouble and he would be arrested if he returned. He went anyway. They were right. He was arrested and never planted another church. He lived the next ten years mostly in jail or on trial.
“Imagine him sitting in prison or under house arrest, reflecting on the glory years of church planting. Imagine him thinking, ‘I followed the Lord exactly as I felt He led, and this is what happens? Now I’m stuck just writing letters to friends and to the churches I started?’
“The glory years were over, and all Paul could do was write those letters. Today, all those churches he planted are gone. The letters he wrote – because that’s all he had left – live on. They are still guiding, instructing, and encouraging millions.” {Scary Hope…emphasis mine}
So how ’bout that darkness?
Are you just writing letters?
Are you just calling friends?
Are you just working your job?
Are you just being a mom?
Then…keep going. Even in the darkness.
Who knows? Your simple, ordinary, every-day kind of efforts could end up changing the world one day.
{Imagine that.}
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