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The Candle of Faith Lights the Way

I’m still living with the crushing weight of losing my son. But faith gives me the eyes to see that the map of God’s Word and his promises will lead me through it. I’m not downplaying the devastation and pain hardship brings us. But I am saying that the map will lead us to a place of shelter where those things cannot destroy us.

Faith, my friend, is being able to look for hope even when it seems impossible to find. Faith is hope waiting for tomorrow.

I’ve been waiting for it since the night I received the worst news of my life. I’ve been trying to show it to my patients, even moments after I’ve given them their worst news ever.

Sometimes it’s right there and it’s everything. Sometimes it’s so far away that all I can hold on to is the memory of the map and the touch of my wife’s hand.

There is an important difference between faith and knowledge: if you have to lay eyes on everything to believe it, you won’t know what to believe when it’s too far away to see. That’s why Jesus said those folks who believe even when they can’t see are more blessed, because we humans spend a good bit of our lives in places where it’s too dark for knowledge and only the candle of faith can light our way. 

In every situation life brings, there are opportunities to learn, to change, to blossom, and to fail. To live well involves somehow managing to walk through these times and discovering that faith is enough of a footbridge. 

In the end, we have to keep taking steps, no matter how twisted and dark the path becomes. Believing there will be a light, even just a crack in the door, is how we keep moving. And in so doing, we somehow make it through.

Name one hopeful thing you can decide to believe in today, even though you might not be able to see it.