The Darkness

In life we face a lot of troubles, problems, and inner struggles. All can easily be said that they are "darkness." Everyone including those who are Christians has to go through struggles sometime or another. If anything Christians will experience more darkness sometimes than those who do not believe that Jesus was the way, truth, and the life. The Bible never says that God will stop nor prevent the hard times that people go through, but He does show that He will always be with us. The Bible alone has people that go through many dark time in their lives. For example Job has the most darkest times, I think, that anyone goes through in the bible. For he is serving God whole-hearted and yet God allows satan to attack Job with many darkness's, excluding death. Nevertheless despite the most horrendous darkness that Job had to go through, even getting to the point of telling off God, he came out of the darkness a lot stronger than when he had first embraced it. Darkness overall though, produces the true character in everyone; for by embracing it, people can see whether or not someone will make it through just by how they handle the darkness. Now can depression and grievances settle in? Of course! Depression and grievances are apart of this lifetime and for those people who are Christians then they have a lot to learn for even Christ had to go through darkness. But the truth be told darkness is never really looked at in a way that brings a smile. What it means is that like Christ when He embraced the cross on the way up to be crucified, so should we as darkness comes into our lives. Granted it is not easy to embrace darkness or hard times but like it or not we still have to go through them for if we are to consistently move on through the darkness we must keep pressing on for the higher prize as Paul talks about. I have learned what I think is the largest lesson about darkness for despite the fact that we must embrace it and go through it, The end of that darkness is what ultimately counts; for in life it is the end that counts.