Read Job 19:1–20
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; he has shrouded my
paths in darkness.
Job 19:8
Job saw himself as a traveler fenced in. Satan had complained that
God had “walled in” Job and his family so that they were protected
from trouble (1:9–12). Here Job was complaining because God had
blocked his path, and he could not move. He could not see what lay
ahead because God had shrouded the way with darkness.
At times God permits His children to experience darkness on a
dead-end street where they don’t know which way to turn. When this
happens to you, wait for the Lord to give you light in His own time.
Dr. Bob Jones Sr. used to say, “Never doubt in the darkness what God
has taught you in the light.” What God teaches us in the light will
become even more meaningful in the darkness.
“Oh, the unspeakable benediction of the ‘treasures of darkness’!”
wrote Oswald Chambers. “It is not the days of sunshine and splendor
and liberty and light that leave their lasting and indelible effect upon
the soul, but those nights of the Spirit in which, shadowed by God’s
hand, hidden in the dark cleft of some rock in a weary land, He lets
the splendors of the outskirts of Himself pass before our gaze.”
Something to Ponder
How do you tend to react when God chooses not to reveal what lies
ahead for you?