Word for the day by Christian Education Forum
Finding God In The Darkness
Acts 17:24-31
The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.(Luke 19:10)
Acts 17:24-31
The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.(Luke 19:10)
When our boys were small, we played a game called “Sardines.” We’d turn out all the lights in our home and I would hide in a closet or some other cramped place. The rest of the family groped about in the darkness to find my hiding place and then hide with me until we were squeezed together like sardines. Hence the name.
Our smallest family member at times became frightened in the dark, so when he came close, I would whisper to him softly: “Here I am.”
“I found you, Dad!” he would announce as he snuggled against me in the darkness, not realizing that I let myself be “found.”
Likewise, we have been made to search for God—to “grope for Him,” as Paul put it so vividly (Acts 17:27). But here’s the good news: He is not at all hard to find, for “He is not far from each one of us.” He desires to make Himself known. “There is a property in God of thirst and longing. He hath longing to have us,” wrote Dame Julian of Norwich centuries ago.
Before we come to know Christ, we grope for God in the darkness. But if we search for Him in earnest, He will make Himself known, for He rewards those who diligently seek Him (Heb. 11:6). He will call to us softly: “Here I am.”
And He awaits our reply: “I found You!”
PRAYER
Lord as we grope in darkness hold us by your hand that we may not stumble.Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Man gropes his way through life’s dark maze;to gods unknown he often prays,Until one day he meets God’s Son—At last he’s found the Living One!
Lord as we grope in darkness hold us by your hand that we may not stumble.Amen.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Man gropes his way through life’s dark maze;to gods unknown he often prays,Until one day he meets God’s Son—At last he’s found the Living One!
Christian Education Forum, Diocese of NAE of the Mar Thoma Church