This is a continuation from a previous post…
The dark night is a season in the life of a believer when God intensely tests the heart, mind, soul, and strength. We see story after story after story of common people God uses to do extraordinary things. Yet, we see a similar pattern of “schooling” that each one has to go through. It goes something like this; common man wooed and called by God, enters a season of being trained and blessed by God, enters a season of severe trials and often suffering, comes out with extraordinary trust and faith through which God does miraculous things.
Most of us want to go straight from the blessing part to the extraordinary part. But, you can’t get there without going through the dark night, also called “the desert”. The desert is where God strips the “sand from Egypt” off our skin. he wants to remove those things which keep us from experiencing the promised land with Him.
I’ve seen nothing else except the dark nights accomplishes both stripping the “sand of Egypt” from our skin and moving us closer still to Jesus. God created us. He knows what keeps us from experiencing more of Him (I’ll talk later about what that actually looks like in real life).
There are two separate dark night seasons:
- The Dark Night of the Soul
- The Dark Night of the Spirit
In the following posts, we’ll explore each of these dark night seasons in more detail.
“O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water. ” Psalm 63:1