He Made Darkness His Hiding Place
Father God gave me a special insight today through part of a Sunday school lesson on Hearing God and in something sad my wife encountered this morning. As Olivia and I were talking about it tonight, she encouraged me to write this blog in order to share this revelation gift with you as well. The key verse is Psalm 18:11: "He made darkness His hiding place, dark storm clouds His canopy around Him." It's an admittedly strange verse when you first encounter it. It seems to indicate, at the very least, that God is somehow present in the dark and sad things of life, at the very moment when He seems most distant. It does. But, it says even more than that. This verse is God's heart crying out to us in those moments: (as presented in the class) " I am here !" God is telling His children He has a secret place in the midst of the darkness, and He is inviting us not to miss finding Him there. Our Father, God, sometimes allows Himself to be hidden so we will