Walking in the dark

You have been walking in the sunshine of your intellect.  God has helped you and encouraged you to use it.  Then, just like in the tropics where there is no twilight and day becomes night within minutes, so God plunges you into the night.  He says, "Put your head in your heart and believe!  For now there is no answer.  I am the answer.  You won't see me in the dark.  You will have to follow me in faith, without knowing.  Arise and believe!" There is a tremendous secret in God's ways of doing things if we do follow him across that dark night of the tropics, of the soul.

There will be a moment, maybe just before death, or in the midst of life, or maybe when we are at a very tender age.  At this moment he will appear.  He will just be there.  What you knew by your own intellect has blended together with what was added to you because you believed and walked in the darkness of night.  You have entered into the fullness of the kingdom of God even before your death.  The kingdom of God is in your midst now.