What do we do when horrible happens? The dreaded results say, “The cancer is back.” The voice inside us verbalizes the unspeakable, “I’m filing for divorce.” The phone hands us the forbidden truth, “There are no survivors.” What do we do when horrible happens?
We grope for God in the very same place all of creation began. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters (Genesis 1:2, NIV).
Formless. Empty. Darkness. Deep.
This is the soup we swim in when horrible happens. We used to have form. We used to be full. Light used to befriend us from surface to deep. The dreaded results, the voice inside, the phone in our hand speaks the undeniable, “What was is gone. It will not come again. What will be is still unknown.”
So we sit still in the formless, empty dark where our Creator first birthed life and somehow we sense the Spirit of God hovering. This is the rebirth place of our living relationship with our loving LORD.
You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways. When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast (Job 22:27-29, NIV).
How? When? Why this, now? We do not have the answers. But from this moment forth, we sense the Answer: God will save the downcast.
The sun shall no more be your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you, but the Lord shall be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory and your beauty (Isaiah 60:19, AMP).
