Art and story by: Gail Nobles
Digital Art: Gail Nobles © 2014 - 2022

Darkness We Can See
When I was a baby girl, I knew something was creepy about shadows. I would watch them form in the car as my father drove at night passing street lights. Growing up, I hated the darkness. I hated sleeping without a light in my room. Whenever there was darkness, it made me feel like there was something in the dark watching me. My imagination would make me almost see little shapes and figures in the dark. I hate not being able to see and especially when a bad storm comes. When all of the lights go out, I can’t see the front of my hand. Growing up, I was alright with being in the dark as long as someone was in the same room with me. Whenever I was afraid, my mother taught me to pray.

There is another kind of darkness. It is a darkness you can feel. Wickedness is around us in our lives 24 hours a day and seven days a week. Wickedness is always studying our weakness. Have you ever stopped to wonder about that wickedness, and have you ever studied wickedness? Have you ever figured out Satan’s tricks and games and what he might be doing to you?

When you wake up in the morning, how do you feel? Do you feel depressed and don’t know why? If you know you’re a happy person, Satan is messing with your feelings. Do you feel loneliness sometimes? We all do? Satan tries to work through our loneliness to make us sad. He makes us bored, and that’s when we can get anxious and get into trouble. As long as we feel these things, Satan knows he can win and bring us down to nothing like he is.

There is prejudice in our world, and man stays in the dark with it. As long as race is against race and countries are against countries, there will always be war and destruction. As long as there is always family feud and families growing apart, there will never be togetherness. We will never see the light and grow to love one another.

Do you ever wonder why Satan peeps around the corner and stays in the dark? It is because he is afraid. He is afraid of you and the good and greatness that you might become. According to the Bible, he is just a man.

Isaiah 14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; (17) That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Don’t give up and turn your back on God. Hang on to him. God is not the enemy. Jesus is the light of the world (St. John 8:12), and he has overcome the world (St. John 16:33). (1 John 4:4) Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Don’t be afraid of darkness! Trust in God!
I’m Gail Nobles from The InkPost.