Darkness, Questions, Poverty, and Spiritual Hope

Reading this essay was thought provoking for me. We are told in church a lot to keep our attitudes positive and to look up scripture that helps us remember God’s promises. In our walk with Christ though, we all know that there will be hard times. I think that there are many churches that are teaching the prosperity message weekly to get people to come to the church. They don’t talk about how as Christians we will be tested and ridiculed just as Jesus was. Sometimes its harder to be a Christian in the world we live in. I think I had myself fooled at the beginning of it all because I thought that everything was going to be flowers and daisy’s but darkness is something real in our lives. It is something we don’t like to always acknowledge but it’s a real part of life we must tend to.

Speaking on death in the family, my aunt was talking to me about that this week. She was born before the other children in my dad’s family but her mom put her up for adoption and she didn’t find our family till about three years ago. She was down visiting and I took her out for coffee and she began to discuss my grandmother and told me I needed to tell her some stories because unfortunately my grandmother died before my aunt got to meet her. So I began to remember the times with my grandmother that I could remember and began to tell her what my grandmother was like. But amongst all the light that my grandmother brought to my life, her death brought a lot of darkness to my world. She died when I was in seventh grade and I will never forget that day because I felt as though my world had come crashing down because she was such a big part of my world. This was a moment that I truly felt darkness in my world and I began to search for God to help me understand. I can really relate to what the essay is talking about because through this despair in my life, I began to find hope that I would see her in heaven one day.

Our lives will forever be without darkness at some point. We all will have times when darkness is a part of our lives but we all know the spiritual hope that God provides in times of need. I learn from every experience that I have with darkness, to abide more in Him so that when these times do come I can find that hope quicker each time.