Can God can be found in the darkness

Psalm139

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.



Sometimes its difficult to escape the darkness that surrounds us in times of trouble and the desire of our hearts can be to hide in that darkness but these words have always given me great comfort .The God of David is a God who looks for us and can see us at our best and at our worst this can be disturbing for us to know that God can see us warts and all but it also brings about the greatest of hope.The hope comes from knowing that we are KNOWN yet no abandoned or forsaken that God is not like us he will not give up on what he has created .God will not leave his creation to its own ways he will rescue us.



Darkness can be the a great place for growth ,for coming to new revelations of the height and depth of Gods love.Darkness can be character building.But we need people around us who can see that darkness and who can walk through it with us.To many times out of good intentions people try to drag us back into the light when we are not ready.David would never have seen the heart of God without these times of darkness.