Early one morning around 3:00 a.m. I happened to be up and my 6 year old son Isaac came into the room where I was. I asked him why he was up and did he want to go lay on the couch. He said that he did want to go to the couch to go back to sleep. Then he starts crying. Not one of those little cries, but one of those ugly cries that distorts your lips. I asked what was wrong, but could not understand him through the crying. I told him to calm down and tell me what was wrong. He finally calmed down and told me that he had a cross in his bed with him and had lost it. He tried to find it, but couldn’t see it. Neither could he find it by feeling around for it. I told him that it was still there and that he just couldn’t find it because it was dark. I told go lay down and get some sleep. He came back momentarily with a big smile displaying his cross that he had lost. He said that it was under the cover and he had just missed it.
I feel that many of us are like this. We encounter a dark season of life and begin to wonder where Jesus is. We look for Him and we can’t see Him in the situation. We feel after Him, but we still can’t find Him. Then we start to doubt that He is even there. We start to believe that He has left us in our time of need. We forget that the Lord said I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5 KJV). And also I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20 KJV).
Jesus has not forsaken you. Just because it is dark and you can’t find Him doesn’t mean that He has left you. Trust that He is still there in the darkness, closer than you even know.
Micah 7:8 KJV Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.
Psalm 139:11-12 NET 11 If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,” 12 even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.