Fog and Faith are Friends

There are times when you will need to exercise faith in the midst of difficult times. Foggy times. Times when you only see what is in front of you, and have not a clue to the future. Those who understand the value of flying a plane by instruments alone, know why this is one of the many fundamental aspects of flight training. It must be learned, not because this is something that happens often, but when it does happen, your life may depend upon it.



Learning to cling to His words, and not our feelings, will preserve us during the foggy seasons in our life. Faith and Fog are friends because they are not threaten by one another, only enhanced. They prove to the world that true LIFE does not just existed in the Bright sunny day, but in the darkness too. I read this morning the words of David, “For You will light my lamp; The LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.”


“You will, Light my lamp...God will enlighten my darkness.” So does this indicate that we wait for Him?

In F.B. Meyers devotional, the following entry speaks of the powerful beauty of waiting for God in the midst of not knowing what to do.


“He said to Abiathar the priest, Bring hither the ephod. 1 Samuel 23:9


David was passing through one of the most awful experiences of his life, when his men spoke of stoning him instead of taking up his cause. How many times in chapter we are informed that David inquired of the Lord! Some three or four times the appeal for direction was renewed as though he were fearful to stir one step by the light of his own unaided wisdom. In that changeable life of his, it must have been extremely difficult to set the Lord always before him, and await Divine direction.


Many a time his circumstances might seem to demand immediate action rather than prayer; and the rude soldiery must have insisted on their voice being heard rather than a priest's; but David was not deterred by one or the other, and still held to his practice of consulting the Urim and Thummim stone, set in the ephod; which was probably a splendid diamond, flashing with God's distinct “Yes,” or growing cloudy and dark with his definite “No.” Let us inquire of the Lord. The answer will surely come, if we wait for it.


If we are not sure of it, let us still wait, for it will come not so early as to save us from using our faith, not so late as to permit us to be overwhelmed. Direction will come in the growing of duty, in the drift of circumstances, in the advice of friends, in the perceptions of a sanctified judgment.


None that wait on God can be ashamed. Whether our duty be to arise and pursue, to sit still, or to escape “the meek He will guide in judgment; the meek He will teach his way.” He gives us a white stone in which a name is written which only they know who receive.