Friends, there are times in life when God will be the only one
you have. In those times there will be nothing good to feel good about, no blessings
that you can ascertain, no counselors with the right words to encourage you, nothing
to ease the pain or the loneliness, nothing to replace the loss – just God
alone. But you will find, if you are
content with God alone, His grace will be sufficient, and in His time, the
darkness will give way to light, the despair will give way to joy, the loneliness
to the comfort of a friend who is closer than a brother, and you will again
praise Him from whom all blessings flow. Weeping endures for the night, but joy
comes in the morning, (Psalm 30:5). The “shadow lands” is the place where God
grows his children up into the likeness of Christ. The “shadow-lands” is the crucible
of a fiery suffering from which emerges the purest gold.
- Pastor Tom
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