What has happened to me is like a dark cloud over my face. But the darkness will not keep me quiet.
Job 23:17 ERV
Have you ever wondered what it truly means to walk with faith amidst life’s challenges and hardships? Have you faced trials and difficulties, yet still held onto your belief and trust in the Lord? In this journey of faith, what have been your experiences and struggles? What challenges have come your way because of your faithfulness to Jesus?
Beloved, I hope you would realize that whatever darkness might have overwhelmed you but failed to take your life should not be able to take your voice. The devil wants you silenced even while you’re alive.
I pray that you will raise your voice, and like Job, say: “Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.” (NIV)
Remember, that this ‘fire experience’ is meant to be a refining process, not to burn you into ashes. Remember, the fire experience is meant to refine you, not destroy you. Therefore, you must ensure that the only way you are walking in is “His way”.
More importantly, you must remember that the One, whose way you’re treading is committed to providing you a way out of the darkness that may be covering your face.
He will surely cause His light to shine in and through you, and no darkness shall be able to overcome you.
For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful [to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.
1 Corinthians 10:13 AMPC