DEPTHS
this morning, i was reflecting on a very familiar psalm when some new insight broke through. (don’t you love it when that happens? it’s like you’re reading something you’ve read a thousand times and even memorized when you suddenly see a phrase in a new light and it reveals a new dimension you’ve never thought of before.)
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.
~Psalm 139:11-12~
i used to think that the author was trying to hide in the darkness – to run away from God. and that God cannot be hidden from as much as we try.
what i realized this morning was that it could be out of despair that the psalmist writes. he feels engulfed in darkness and uncertainty and thinks that surely God will not know where to rescue him from. but the hope and the truth is that God cannot be stumped by darkness. He still sees clearly through our uncertainties.
yay for a God who has perfect perspective!
were written in Your book
before one of them came to be.
~Psalm 139:16b~