Sometimes God puts us through the experience and discipline of
darkness to teach us to hear and obey Him. Song birds are taught to sing
in the dark, and God puts us into “the shadow of His hand” until we
learn to hear Him (Isaiah 49:2).
“Whatever I tell you in the dark. . .”— pay attention when God puts you
into darkness, and keep your mouth closed while you are there. Are you
in the dark right now in your circumstances, or in your life with God?
If so, then remain quiet. If you open your mouth in the dark, you will
speak while in the wrong mood— darkness is the time to listen. Don’t
talk to other people about it; don’t read books to find out the reason
for the darkness; just listen and obey. If you talk to other people, you
cannot hear what God is saying. When you are in the dark, listen, and
God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are
back in the light.
After every time of darkness, we should experience a mixture of
delight and humiliation. If there is only delight, I question whether we
have really heard God at all. We should experience delight for having
heard God speak, but mostly humiliation for having taken so long to hear
Him! Then we will exclaim, “How slow I have been to listen and
understand what God has been telling me!” And yet God has been saying it
for days and even weeks. But once you hear Him, He gives you the gift
of humiliation, which brings a softness of heart— a gift that will
always cause you to listen to God now.
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