Psalm 18

"Yahweh, you yourself are my lamp,
my God lights up my darkness;"
Psalm 18:28

There are days I'm sure for all of us that just seem to be dark. It doesn't matter if the sun is shinning or not but the mood around us is dark and gloomy! It is in those days when we have to be willing to ask ourselves where are we going to expect hope to come from, where are we going to gain light in the midst of the darkness.
The easy answer is to simply say that we should let God be our light and everything will be ok. But when you are in the midst of the darkness that answer rings a bit hollow. Sometimes the darkness is just overwhelming and seems to last forever.
It is those moments of darkness that I force myself to remember. To remember how God has been with me and others in the past. I remember even the smallest of glimpses of light that I have seen and I hold on to them like a dog with bone not letting anyone dare come close enough to take them away.
Those days are work. There isn't any other way to put it! When you find yourself in the midst of darkness it takes great work to look for the light of God but it is always there. Never has there been a time that I have experienced either myself or with others that together we couldn't name the light that we had seen.
So today if the darkness surrounds you can you find a point of God's light to latch on to? Can you find a people who will wait with you counting on the new day that God will be bringing to you? Can you let God be the light that will give you hope for a new day?