What Is Your Darkness?

Greetings!!!

As a child of God, have you had times of darkness and heaviness that you did not understand? In those times have you wondered if you had done something wrong or if there was some sin that you committed that the Lord just did not reveal to you yet. As you groped through the darkness, did you wonder if you would ever again see the light... would you ever again experience joy. 

As I sat in church Sunday morning thinking about the darkness that sometimes shrouds God's children, Psalm 91 washed over me like an enormous wave.

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High 

Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say to the LORD, "My refuge and my fortress, 

My God, in whom I trust!"

For it is He who delivers you from the snare of the trapper, 

And from the deadly pestilence. 

He will cover you with His pinions, 

And under His wings you may seek refuge; 

His faithfulness is a shield and bulwark. 

You will not be afraid of the terror by night,

Or of the arrow that flies by day;

Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,

Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

A thousand may fall at your side,

And ten thousand at your right hand; 

But it shall not approach you.

You will only look on with your eyes,

And see the recompense of the wicked.

For you have made the LORD, my refuge, 

Even the Most High, your dwelling place.

No evil will befall you,

Nor will any plague come near your tent.

For He will give His angels charge concerning you,

To guard you in all your ways.

They will bear you up in their hand,

Lest you strike your foot against a stone. 

You will tread upon the lion and cobra, 

The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.

"Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.

He will call upon Me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will rescue him, and honor him.

With a long life I will satisfy him,

And let him behold My salvation."

Is it possible that the darkness and heaviness that engulfs you today is that God has His hand upon you and is  holding you in the shadow of His wings? Could it be that the mental abuse being heaped upon you by the devil is so great because that is all that can reach you under God's mighty hand? Could it be that no specific sin is brought to your mind because God will not entertain any accusation against you? What is the source of your darkness? Is it spiritual heaviness and darkness because of a stronghold of the devil in your life that you need to confess and repent of, or is it that you are under the shadow of the Almighty? 

The LORD bless you with choosing to dwell in the shelter of the Most High, and abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

I love you,

Ruth