When I Walk in the Dark ShadowsSample

When God allows us to walk in the darkness, His goal is to teach us to listen and obey Him alone. In the dark, God silences all the other voices that speak to us in order to teach us to listen to Him alone. God will speak to us in the darkness, and what He tells us there must be preached from the rooftops (Matt.10:27). God doesn't yell at us in the darkness. He whispers - softly — like a gentle wind — a still small voice within us.

The darkness is primarily for ourselves. Sometimes He lets us walk in the darkness to receive a message for someone else, but that is the exception. Even if the darkness is primarily for ourselves, others often learn and are encouraged as we walk in victory with God.

Walking with God in the darkness brings deeper humility, deeper surrender and brokenness, a new dependency on God, and ultimately new and greater freedom. If this doesn't happen, there is a chance that the darkness that we have been experiencing is not from God but likely rooted in anxiety, worry, sin, or evil.

We shouldn't try to tell others what to do in the darkness. We are not God, so we should leave it to Him. We should only encourage them to wait on God. Don't try to make it easier for them by lighting a few candles (Isa.50:10-11). We often hinder God's work in people through our efforts to get them out of the darkness and through inappropriate and premature compassion.