FLOODING THE DARKNESS
Today`s reading: Job 11-12

``He floods the darkness with light; he brings light to the deepest gloom.`` Job 12:22 NLT

The Hebrews translation of this verse goes like this:

He discovers deep things of darkness and brings out into light the shadow of death.

Another translation from the Lexicon reveals that the deep things are in fact exceeding deep things.

I have had deep things lurking in the shadows of my mind. Things I struggled with understanding. Things I couldn`t quite get to work out in my mind. Things that loomed like a every day object creating an eery form in the darkness of night.

The verse says He brings those things into His light.

He mines them out as a miner would a piece of ore.

He uncovers them.

He exposes them.

He releases those things from the unknown dark and places them squarely in the Light where they can be seen, understood and no longer feared.

That is hope.

That is what we need to know when the shadow of death brings us torment, when the current happenings are far from understood, when the why`s overwhelm us.

He promises that we needn`t fear for He knows what lies in the dark!