Wednesday, February 25, 2015

WorshipFULLWednesday...Without You

"My days have passed, my plans are shattered.
Yet the desires of my heart
turn night into day;
in the face of the darkness light is near."
~Job 17:11-12






This song is so beautiful and powerful (so is the story behind it).  I think that when God tells us in His Word that He can make for us a crown of beauty instead of ashes, an oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair (Isaiah 61:3), He is saying that while He allows us to enter into a world of ashes, mourning, despair, He doesn't intend on keeping us there.  God ultimately wants us in a world of beauty, joy, and praise.  

Without the one world, we would never know the experience of the other.  In other words, without experience mourning, we would never know the experience of joy.  What we might see as despair, God sees as an opportunity of praise.  Hold fast, endure the valley of shadows, look to God in the time of ashes, for He is waiting to show you a whole other world of beauty, joy, and praise!  And remember always: "In the face of the darkness light is near."