Faith may be in the dark about guidance, but it is never in the dark about God.
What God is doing may be mystery, but who God is is not. …
Oswald Chambers explains: “When I am going on with God in His path, I do not understand, but God does; therefore I understand God, not His path.”…
…trust God and wait in the dark. …
As Oswald Chambers says,”are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet. If you open your mouth in the dark, you will talk in the wrong mood: darkness is the time to listen.”…
That is when we can say with Augustine, “You are guiding me as a helmsman steers a ship, but the course you steered was beyond my understanding.”…
Suffering is the most acute trial that faith can face, and the questions it raises are the sharpest, the most insistent, and the most damaging that faith will meet. …
Faith must reach deep into its reserves of courage and endurance if the rising panic of incomprehensible pain is not to be overwhelming. …
God in the Dark (The Assurance of Faith Beyond a Shadow of Doubt) by Os Guinness pp. 176-179