All of us have times in our lives when we pass through a
very dark valley. Some of us walk them
over and over; some of us have enduring sorrows
or illness which impact us every day. We cope in different ways. In all our dark days, God wants to be there
to walk through the valley with us.
For
some, this presence is very real, in the person and spirit of Jesus; for others whose experience of God has perhaps
been overlaid with some kind of alienating experience (often from the organised
church or some prattling Christian who offers trite advice and bible verses, without
any empathy with suffering); for these, the
presence of God is not so clear. But God
is still there. It might be in the kind
word of a nurse who listens as we endure a long night of pain or
bewilderment; it might be an act of
kindness from a stranger; it might even
be through some worldly advice. I heard
recently of a person who was at the end of his own resources being told, “tie a
knot in the rope, and hang on”. God is
there in all that, and more. Lord of
compassion, give us obedience today, to deny our own egos and let your love and
care, pass to those we meet today. Give us humility, so we can see you in the
faces of those who suffer.
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