God is not afraid of the dark. Are we? As I grew up in Germany, our apartment had the best blinds I have ever seen. They shut out all light from the outside. This facilitated good rest -- unless you were afraid of the darkness. If you awakened during the night, you needed a flashlight to get to the door. This was inky darkness, stygian blackness.
People practice evil in the darkness when no one is looking. But God, who stretches our vocabulary and exhausts our superlatives is omni-luminescent. So if we say, God will not see me in the darkness, we severely underestimate the brightness of his light.
One friend who saw the eclipse said, "But it didn't get completely dark." Why not? Because the rim of the sun shone through. Just so, on our darkest days, God's light shines through. When our God who dwells in unapproachable light decides to show up, no darkness can withstand the radiance of his presence.
A child lost his mother. After the funeral, when his father put him to bed that night, he heard the boy crying in his room. Gently he asked him how he could help. The boy asked him, "Is your face toward me in the darkness?" The father answered, "Yes, my face is toward you in the darkness." So God speaks to his children in our darkness. We need not fear the darkness because God is with us.
