The Darkness and the Light Are Both Alike to You

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 He transfers me from darkness to light.  His eyes saw my substance being yet unformed -- [Psalm 139:
16]



Not even my mother's womb could be hidden from God...to Him, light and dark are the same.  He took hold of every detail of me, stitch by stitch, He fashioned my days while i lay in the womb. [v. 16]

The plans of God for my life, layer by layer, nuance by nuance, i see more clearly as i go on this Christlike journey that He has led me every step of the way, teaching me by the mistakes and miscalculations my simple humanity has made and will continue to make. All the spiritual discipline i've received just over these past two years reminding me of the Billy Graham Crusade i watched on television when i was in the 10th or 11th grade in high school back in the early 70s.  Recently the jobs i've taken that didn't last.  He must have something else in mind for me; or, as a friend suggested, He wants me to rest and He will take charge now.

From when bad people in my life intend for me whatever is bad, God will only bless me with good. It never took long for him to search me and know me.  He still knows things about me that i don't yet know myself.  

If I ascend into heaven, You are there

If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea

Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me

If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall on me," Even the night

shall not hide from You,

But the night shines as the day; 

The darkness and the light are both alike to You ---[Psalm 139: 8-12]

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