{"id":6345,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/it-is-gods-dark\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:14","slug":"it-is-gods-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/it-is-gods-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is God&#8217;s Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his sermon, \u201cListening to the Dark,\u201d Eugene Lowry comforts listeners from the story of God speaking in a still, small voice to the despairing Elijah:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of the darkness of the cave finally came this voice.  The voice came up close to the ear and whispered.  And the voice said, \u2018What are you doing here?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s one of the most remarkable passages in all of Scripture.  What do you mean, \u2018What are you doing HERE?\u2019  Do you notice what the voice did not say?  It did not say, \u2018What are you doing THERE?\u2019 &#8211; as looking on to the scene of the cave saying, \u201cWhat are you doing there, Elijah?  Why are you there?\u2019  We\u2019re nothing talking THERE, we\u2019re talking HERE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod is in the dark.  In fact, God is bigger than the dark.  That\u2019s the promise.  It is God\u2019s dark.  God is the Creator of the dark.  And the promise is that God will be present&#8230; And so with the confidence of the children of the Most High God, revealed in Christ, we may dare to endure the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his sermon, \u201cListening to the Dark,\u201d Eugene Lowry comforts listeners from the story of God speaking in a still, small voice to the despairing Elijah: \u201cIn the midst of the darkness of the cave finally came this voice. The voice came up close to the ear and whispered. And the voice said, \u2018What are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1049,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}