Sermons About Peniel
The Long Dark Night
Long dark nights of the soul are devastating to one unanchored in the promise of God in Jesus Christ. They shape our view of the world around us and dictate our responses to the life in which God has placed us. Yet to the one seeking after God, these dark nights of the soul are one of God’s must useful instruments to change us through his grace that comes only through Jesus Christ. Sometimes God takes through long dark nights in our souls to demonstrate our own helplessness apart from Him. It is His desire that we come to a place of total dependence and submission to His will, to abandon ourselves to Him. Jesus told His disciples, “Apart from me, you can do nothing.” It is a lesson we must all learn. Today, in the life of Jacob, we see a long dark night of wrestling, resolved only at daybreak with a prayer, an answer, and a life forever changed.
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