Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there. If I live at the eastern horizon or settle at the western limits, even there Your hand will lead me; Your right hand will hold on to me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light around me will be night” – even the darkness is not dark to You. The night shines like the day; darkness and light are alike to You. Psalm 139:7-12
My words…
A Prayer of Praise to the One Who is Never in Darkness
Darkness is not dark to You – another mind-bending facet of Your existence. Darkness is a part of life for me, a reaction of my planet rotating on its axis. If I choose to do evil, I will act under the cloak of darkness because my acts will be hidden from men. Opportunities to hide my actions from men abound because my world is in darkness half of the time. You understand darkness, but You are not bound by it. Nothing I do is hidden from You – the good and the bad. Some would find this concept unsettling, but I find it comforting because if Your “eyesight” were limited, You wouldn’t be omniscient. Who would worship a god who wasn’t omniscient? I worship You because darkness flees from You, for You are light – the two cannot abide together. The light always wins. You always win. All praise to You who sees me, leads me, and holds on to me no matter where I am.
