Holding on to the One Thing

I think there are times in everyone’s life that you feel the ground beneath your feet is shaking or even removed. You cry out for an answer, for hope, for a solution to a question that maybe you don’t even know how to ask. These times are like a dark night. A dark night of the soul. To be enveloped in darkness without the ability to see. Your soul feeling squeezed beyond anything you thought you could endure. These moments present you choices that you never had outside that dark night. The choice that every dark night brings is will you scramble to find a path outside the darkness or will you trust the one who led you in.

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You have anointed my head with oil. Psalm 23:4-5

I have found that the urge to run from the dark night misses the feast that is in that dark place. In the walking through the valley, you discover something of Jesus that causes you not to fear. Instead of running, pull on Him. Instead of searching out safety, find Him and hold to him with everything you have. Don’t seek out an answer, just find Jesus. In that closeness with Him you find that there is a feast in that dark valley. Think about that. In the place that “death” has named, there is a feast for the believer. No darkness, no demonic force, and no wicked principality is strong enough to take you out of not just a place of living but feasting. Cling to Jesus and find your feast.