Night and Day

I live inside the Psalms. They give words to my days, an endless source of comfort and help. On Sunday these verses from Psalm 74 jumped out at me:

Yet God is my king from of old,
Who works deeds of deliverance in the midst of the earth.
...Yours is the day, Yours also is the night;
You have prepared the light and the sun.
You have established all the boundaries of the earth;
You have made summer and winter.

Some Christians like to think there should only be light. That if there is darkness in your life, you are at fault. You should pray more, believe more, and worship more until the darkness goes away. The darkness is just not meant to be.

I think God and the Bible are much more nuanced that most Christians. Psalm 74 says, "Yours is the day, Yours also is the night." There is day and night in my life, all the time. I don't think we can live with an ounce of peace if we have to endlessly fight the darkness in our lives; if we can't just say, this, too, is a part of life. I think most Christians are wrong, quite frankly. At least the loud ones anyway. I live in light and in dark, and Emmanuel lives in it all with me. And thank God for that.