2020 Daily Devotion - Day 1
During this Coronavirus Pandemic, I plan to send you a devotional each day. It is my prayer that these devotional readings will help strengthen you in these challenging times.
In a situation like this, it is so difficult to know what is going to happen. I have heard people saying that it would be so much easier if they just knew when it would all end and our lives could return to normal. We think if I could just know when this will end, I could tolerate the situation a lot better. And, it is the very fact that no one at this point really knows when it will end, that makes it so much harder. In this way, it is as if we are in the dark. God’s Word speaks into this type of situation with these words:
Psalm 139:11-12
“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me
become night’, even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as
bright as the day for darkness is as light to you.”
When I was in high school, I took a photography class. This was in the days when you would still use a “dark room” to develop film. I was absolutely amazed at how dark it was. I had never been in a situation where it was absolute, total darkness. In fact, in a situation like that, your eyes play tricks on you, and you sometimes even think that you saw something when that was impossible.
So when Psalm 139 says that God can not only see in dark, but that it is as bright as day — it is amazing. What might seem like darkness to you and to me in this season of the Coronavirus “is as bright as the day” to God. In fact, our darkness is as light to Him.
So, let us take encouragement that God knows when this ends. He can see in the dark. And because He loves you and is almighty, you can trust that He will see you through.
Pray with me:
Heavenly Father, remind us today that even though things seem like gloom all around us, You can see in the dark and will rescue us from the darkness. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Yours because of Him,
Pastor John R. Steward
Senior Pastor
Mount of Olives Church
In a situation like this, it is so difficult to know what is going to happen. I have heard people saying that it would be so much easier if they just knew when it would all end and our lives could return to normal. We think if I could just know when this will end, I could tolerate the situation a lot better. And, it is the very fact that no one at this point really knows when it will end, that makes it so much harder. In this way, it is as if we are in the dark. God’s Word speaks into this type of situation with these words:
Psalm 139:11-12
“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me
become night’, even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as
bright as the day for darkness is as light to you.”
When I was in high school, I took a photography class. This was in the days when you would still use a “dark room” to develop film. I was absolutely amazed at how dark it was. I had never been in a situation where it was absolute, total darkness. In fact, in a situation like that, your eyes play tricks on you, and you sometimes even think that you saw something when that was impossible.
So when Psalm 139 says that God can not only see in dark, but that it is as bright as day — it is amazing. What might seem like darkness to you and to me in this season of the Coronavirus “is as bright as the day” to God. In fact, our darkness is as light to Him.
So, let us take encouragement that God knows when this ends. He can see in the dark. And because He loves you and is almighty, you can trust that He will see you through.
Pray with me:
Heavenly Father, remind us today that even though things seem like gloom all around us, You can see in the dark and will rescue us from the darkness. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Yours because of Him,
Pastor John R. Steward
Senior Pastor
Mount of Olives Church
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