Old Testament talk for 'in life you get some joy and you get some sorrow.'
You are to drink deeply of both. Both joy and sorrow. They are the ying and yang of life. You will encounter God in both places.
The God you find in joy has a different dimension than the God you encounter in sorrow. But God is there in both, and in both, God is calling you to live as a child of God.
I know. You can do without the sorrow. We all want it all to be joyful, or at least good, or maybe just easy. But it isn't and we all know that as well.
So is God absent from those times when you can't catch your breath, you don't want to live another day, your hopes and dreams are crushed? Sure feels like it.
Take a good look at Jesus on the cross. Where is God in the depth of that suffering?
Where is God in that death?
There is little in this world which seems so totally void, so completely 'without' so totally 'nothing' as the face of one who suffers unto death. Perhaps when we walk into that nothingness, without any props and assumptions and hopes and dreams, perhaps there we will find the truest God.
It is frightening to consider. Maybe only a few are invited into that place of revelation or maybe only a few not only risk the journey into the depths, but when there, wait for God.
Just the same, it is something to consider on those days when the entire world seems hell bent on making me miserable. Just possibly, at the center of my misery, if I wait and listen, I might encounter God.
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