Trusting in the Darkness, Part 2

Psalm 130:1-7
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Today’s topic is one many of us find difficult: waiting. Colin Smith delves into Psalm 130 to explore what it truly means to wait on the Lord, especially during life’s darkest moments. In a culture where everything is rushed, this lesson teaches us the importance of patience and trust in God’s timing.

Colin discusses how waiting is not about having all the answers, but about making a simple decision and a steady commitment to wait on God, relying on His unfailing love and plentiful redemption. He shares poignant examples of waiting as an expression of love, encouraging us to see our periods of waiting as times to deepen our relationship with God.

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I wait for the Lord, he says, my soul waits No smart answers, no trite phrases, no patronizing

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advice, no exhortations to pull yourself together, just a simple decision and a steady commitment

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to wait.

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Welcome to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith. I’m David Pick and Colin today we’re

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talking about a subject many people really don’t like, no one likes to wait.

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What’s your favourite place to wait? I mean waiting in line at the grocery store?

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Oh, that’s terrible.

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Waiting on a train?

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I hate that! I wanna wait at a nice coffee shop with good Wi-fi.

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You know it doesn’t grab us as a wonderful thing to do, waiting. I mean it seems like

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the most useless redundant waste of time and yet the Bible time and again talks about waiting

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on God. I think that’s one of the hardest things for us to understand in our culture.

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We’re in the culture of rush, the next thing get onto it, you know? What does it mean for

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me to wait on the Lord? Well, we’re gonna find out today in the Psalms that when I find

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myself in a dark place in life, that’s the most important thing for me to do. And if

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you are in a place of real darkness right now, then knowing what it means to wait on

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the Lord is perhaps the single most important thing for you to grasp right now. So I’m so

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glad the scripture speaks to us so clearly about it.

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It does. So, let’s not wait any longer. We’re in Psalm 130, continuing our message. Trusting

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in the darkness. Here’s Colin.

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In your Bible and you will discover men and women of faith who walked through the dark

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night of the soul and they did not hide the pain under a pile of spiritual phrases. They

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faced the pain and all of it’s horror and they brought it as it is into the presence

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of God. That connects the soul to God. Even the soul in agony to God.

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Out of the depths I cry to you, oh Lord! This is prayer ascending

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from a soul in turmoil. It is authentic, it is real.

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I asked a lady who was bereaved not so long ago how she was doing and she said,

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God, it just hurts so much. And the way she said it, I sensed that she thought that was

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a failure of faith. I actually thought it was refreshingly honest. See, if you deny

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the pain, you can’t bring it to God, and you then shut off one of the greatest opportunities

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to discover His grace. Where did we get the idea that pain isn’t quite so painful if you

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are a Christian? If I hit my thumb with a hammer, it hurts as much as it hurts the unbeliever,

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did you know that? And when a Christian’s soul is in the dead — if you didn’t know

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that, try it by the way. When a Christian’s soul is in the depth of sorrow, the pain can

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seem overwhelming to the Christian soul. And it is no part of Christian faith to deny that.

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We distance ourselves if we do from Jesus, who said in the garden, My soul is overwhelmed

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with sorrow — he said. Out of the depths, I cry to you, O Lord. What do you do when

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you cry out to God from the depths, when you find yourself in that dark night of the soul?

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What are you to do? And what the Psalmist says to us here in verse 5, one word, wait,

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wait. I wait for the Lord, he says, my soul waits. This is marvelous. This is new ground,

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isn’t it? No, no smart answers, no trite phrases, no patronizing advice. No exhortations to

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pull yourself together. Just a simple decision, and a steady commitment to wait. That wasn’t

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in the Bible. I would never have written that. You would never have thought of that, would

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you? Wait. In our instant culture where we want an answer to everything within the moment,

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this is one of the hardest things for us to do. It’s also one, of course, of the most

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important disciplines for us to learn. The psalmist knew that when you are in deep pain,

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there are no quick answers. This man prays, out of the depths I call to you, O Lord. He

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continues, he says, to fill his mind with the Word of God. He lifts his pain to God.

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He fills his mind with the Word of God and beyond that he waits. He refuses to pretend

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that all is well before a solution has come. Here I am in the depths. My inner being is

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in pain. I will not deny the pain, I will not pretend

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with sleek phrases that all is well. Here is what I will do. I will wait for the Lord.

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Now think about it, waiting is one of the most beautiful and profound expressions of

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love. You ever been in a hospital for an operation and when you came around there was someone

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sitting by the bed just waiting? Beautiful expression of love.

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When we made our move to this country 6 years ago, arriving at O’Here, we had to go through

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the immigration procedure, which seemed to take forever. It actually took about two hours

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after the plane landed. Then finally after going through all of this fingerprinting process

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and all of the rest of it, we were able to collect our luggage and to come out into the

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and I will never forget seeing more than a dozen people from this congregation with banners

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smiling and cheering. I remember the faces still. They’d been waiting. It’s a wonderful

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expression of love! Actually that occurs to me there were probably another dozen who gave

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up an hour previously and went home and if you did, don’t feel bad about that! I don’t

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blame you at all! But waiting! We couldn’t believe it, we’d been so long! It’s a beautiful

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expression of love. Now the length of time you’re prepared to wait is really an expression

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of the value that you place on the person you’re waiting for. I had to get permission

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to tell you this today, but I waited two years for the lady who is now my wife. Oh! Is that

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beautiful? She grabbed my heart the first moment I saw her. The problem was she had

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the same effect on several others. And I was way, way too slow! So I had to wait, and hope!

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But the waiting was an expression of love. David says, I will wait for the Lord. Isn’t

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this the question — how long would you wait for God? The length of the waiting is

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the greatest expression of the value you place on the one you are waiting for. This is worship

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when David says this. There isn’t a greater expression of love in all the world. God,

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your Face seems hidden from me, I find myself in the darkness, I don’t know what you’re

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doing, but I will wait for you. And then notice what he says because it’s not only waiting,

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his waiting is sustained by hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait

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for morning. Picture that miserable old night watchman and he’s parading around the area

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that he’s securing and it’s a long, long night and it’s cold and he’s looking at his watch

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and, oh dear, when’s the dawn going to come. The one thing sustains him is that however

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dark and long this night is, the dawn will surely come and he knows it.

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And that’s how I look for God, he says, that’s how I wait for the Lord, not with some sense

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of despair, some sense of hopelessness, but with the deep conviction of mind and heart

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that at some point, God will come through for me. And when he does, I will be right

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here waiting for him. Don’t deny the pain.

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Wait for the Lord.

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You’re listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith, and a message called

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Trusting in the Darkness. If you tuned in later, don’t forget you can catch up, or

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go back and listen again online at our website openthebible.org.uk. We’re in Psalm 130,

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so I hope you’ll stay with us for the rest of the program. Back to the message now. Here’s

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Colin

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the third and last thing, this morning.

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You will not be disappointed. About a year after we were married, I decided to take Karen

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for a day at the cricket in England. Now it’s a wonderful game, and I promise you

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that there is nothing more glorious than an English summer’s day, watching the cricket

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cricket with your lunch packed and spread out before you. It is just a little taste

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of heaven itself, I promise you. Well, we had planned a day to see England

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against the West Indies in Birmingham, which is about 100 miles from our home in London.

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Cricket begins at 11 in the morning and continues until six in the evening. You get good value

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for your ticket. And we traveled to Birmingham, and as we arrived we noticed that the clouds

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were gathering. And sure enough, just before 11, the heavens opened, and we were rushing

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for cover from the rain. But, of course, they said it would only be a shower. In England

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you should take that kind of statement with a pinch of salt. Well, we watched the water

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hogs soak up water from the grass for four hours. And then the skies began to clear.

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And, sure enough, we were wonderfully rewarded because, at four o’clock, the game began and

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continued for twenty-five minutes until the rain came again and play was abandoned for

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the day. At the end, as we left, Karen said to me,

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it wasn’t worth it. It was difficult to find an answer.

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We should have scrapped the tickets and gone and done something else.

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Now, here’s the bottom-line question. We gotta face it if we’re going to be honest

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here. Is it worth waiting on God when you’re in

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the depth of sorrow? What will come out of waiting from God?

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For there is a temptation that comes to the human soul, as it were, to tear up our tickets,

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cut our losses, and get on with something else. Is all this as I go through the darkness

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so that God may salvage some little scrap of blessing out of a mountain of pain, like

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an uneventful twenty-five minutes of play on a rain-soaked day? I need to know the answer

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to that question if I am to be sustained in my waiting on God in the darkness.

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So look at what he says in verse 7.

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Oh Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and

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with him is full redemption. Literally the word there, full, is

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plentiful, plentiful redemption, abundant redemption.

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Redemption means simply what God will bring out of the pain and brokenness that afflicts

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your soul in the darkness, and what God will bring out of it, the Psalmist says will be

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plentiful, not just enough. Plentiful.

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Peter talks about the same thing in the New Testament when he talks about the grief that

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you will experience in all kinds of trials, he says. And in the furnace of these trials,

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what will happen is this – your faith will be proved genuine and then when Jesus Christ

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is revealed, it will rebound to the praise and to the glory and to the honor of God.

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See, we see all of our experience wrapped up in a day, a week, a month or a year. We

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look at such a short timeframe that it is difficult for us to imagine how anything can

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come out of the darkness that would be greater than the pain that we have experienced in

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but God is looking at a bigger picture.

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Your whole body and soul will be redeemed. You are going to be brought into the presence

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of God and made like Him. This whole sorry fallen creation in which we live our lives

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is going to be redeemed and is going to be renewed, and what God will bring out of this

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suffering world will be more than we could ever begin to imagine or our minds could comprehend.

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What God will bring out of your darkness – your suffering in particular – will be out of

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scale so as to diminish what to you now is so overwhelmingly large. That is beyond what

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at this point we can grasp or what we can perceive, but this is the promise of God.

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When God redeems, it will not be enough, it will be plentiful. And when you see what God

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has redeemed in heaven, and when you see your part in it, you will say, I’m so glad there

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I waited for the Lord. And if you want evidence of that, then just look at Jesus. My soul

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is overwhelmed with sorrow, He said in the Garden of Gethsemane. And then they came to

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arrest Him and He said, this is your hour where darkness reigns. You see He didn’t deny

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the darkness. Then He moves deeper and deeper into the darkness and the anguish of His own

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soul. His friends desert Him, the sin of the world is laid upon him, darkness covers the

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land and then he cannot even feel the presence of his Father. And if you had been standing

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there at the foot of Calvary and someone had asked you, what good can God bring out of

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this that is greater than the darkness He experiences, you would have been stuck for

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an answer. So what does he do? He waits, he hopes, he trusts. Father, into Your hand I

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commit my spirit.’ They took down his body. On the third day the father raises him up

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and redemption streams to the whole world.

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So come with me one last time into the board room of the soul. The members of the board

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are in somber mood as they reflect on the deep darkness in which they find themselves,

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but now the Spirit of God comes right into the board room and takes that chair that God

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has set in every soul that will receive his presence. I know the pain of this soul, the

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spirit says, mind I know all your questions. You believe God knows all your questions?

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Heart I feel all your pain. Conscience I know all your burdens. Imagination I know all

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your fears. Memory I know all your regrets. Will I know that you feel spent. And I want

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you to know says the spirit of God I have not come as a visitor. I have come to stay

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so that we may work through this darkness together. Mind I know all your worries. Thou

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s a great deal that you don t know and can t know but I want you to focus now on what

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you do know. So we can help the other members of the board. Mind straightens himself in

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his chair and then holds his head and his hands as he tries to focus. Well all I know

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right now is that we were in great darkness says mind. That s a good start. God I know

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the whole soul can agree on that says the spirit. Now what else do we know? Can we agree

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that God is with us? No we can t says heart because I can t feel him. Yes but that s not

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the issue says conscience. Remember heart you can t feel anything except the pain. It

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s overwhelmed you and obliterated all else. The question is not can you feel His presence

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the question is simply is he here. I m ready to believe He s here says memory. We knew

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Him here before why should the darkness make us doubt His presence now? Yes says imagination

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like the sun that s always there but sometimes hidden behind a cloud hidden for our view

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only for a time but still there as much as before. We are in the darkness then but God

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is with us. Can we also agree that God will bring us through, when? When? God will bring

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us through, he says heart painfully, I don’t know how much longer I can stand this. We

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not talking time scales, says Will. The question is simply whether we choose to believe that

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God will bring us through and the only alternative is to remain in the darkness. No one else

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can bring us out. I move, says Will, that we affirm as the position of this soul that

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we are in the darkness, that God is with us and that God will bring us through. Second,

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says Mind, with God darkness is never the final word. Let’s look to see his full

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redemption. The motion was carried unanimously.

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I think many of us can relate to this message, if we’re, if we’ve experienced the dark

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night of the soul, those times when you can’t make sense of what’s going on in your life

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and you have no sense of God’s presence. How do you deal with that? Today’s message,

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trusting in the darkness, I think helps us to see how sometimes we just need to wait

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on the Lord.

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You’ve been listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and today’s message

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trusting in the darkness. If you’ve missed any of the message, if you tuned in late,

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or if you’d like to pray with us, today’s message is about failing faith.

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If indeed, if you missed yesterday’s, which was the first part of this message, you can

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something you’ve been considering doing, we have an offer for you this month to say

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thank you for your support. If you are able to set up a new payment to the work of Open

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the Bible, in the amount of £5 per month or more. This month we’d love to thank you

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by sending you pastor Colin’s new book, Flying Through the Bible. Colin, why did you use

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the flying metaphor to describe this book?

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Well, suppose you were making a visit to the Grand Canyon and exploring it for the first

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time. I mean, I guess you could hike down and you’d get a sense of the depth of the

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canyon, you could drive around the rim you’d get a sense of the length of it, but perhaps

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the best way to get an overall sense of the vastness and beauty of the Grand Canyon would

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be to take a flight over it. Now, when it comes to the Bible, to get a high-altitude

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overview of what the Bible’s story is all about seems to me to be the best place to

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begin. The Bible really is one story, it begins in a garden, it ends in a city, and all the

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through it’s about the Lord Jesus Christ. And Fly Through the Bible is kind of cookies

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on the bottom shelf, to change the analogy, it gives an overall picture, an introduction

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to the scripture that I hope will help and encourage people to want to explore more

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when they get on the ground.

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Well we’d love to send you a free copy of Colin’s book, Fly Through the Bible, to say

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thank you for setting up a new donation to the work of Open the Bible this month in the

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amount of £5 per month or more. Full details of this offer are on our website.

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For Pastor Colin Smith and Open the Bible, I’m David Pick, and I hope you’ll come and

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Colin Smith is the Senior Pastor of The Orchard Evangelical Free Church in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. He has authored a number of books, including Heaven, How I Got Here and Heaven, So Near – So Far. Colin is the Founder and Teaching Pastor for Open the Bible. Follow him on X formerly Twitter.

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There’s a battle going on in the boardroom of your soul. Meet the six members of the board. Their names are Mind, Heart, Will, Conscience, Memory, and Imagination. They meet in secret to hammer out the great issues of your life, and the outcome will determine your future.

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