Dark, Darker, Darkest

I am still troubled by Job’s speech. I will probably be troubled by it for the rest of my life. When I picture him speaking these words, I don’t know what to say. When I try to take his words as my own, I’m left with the same bitter questions. When I imagine Christ speaking these words, I cannot comprehend their depth.

In the end, I’m left with the same enduring mysteries of suffering and relief, of pain and grace, of God and the world he made. Here, then, is the greatest mystery:

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you.

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From a sermon on Job 10.