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When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—And Joy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Even the most faithful, focused Christians can encounter periods of depression and spiritual darkness when joy seems to stay just out of reach. It can happen because of sin, satanic assault, distressing circumstances, or hereditary and other physical causes. In When the Darkness Will Not Lift, John Piper aims to give some comfort and guidance to those experiencing spiritual darkness.

Far, far above thy thought, His counsel shall appear, When fully He the work hath wrought, That caused thy needless fear. Leave to His sovereign sway To choose and to command; So shalt thou, wondering, own that way, How wise, how strong this hand.1 2 It is utterly crucial that in our darkness we affirm the wise, strong hand of God to hold us, even when we have no strength to hold him. This is the way Paul thought of his own strivings. He said,
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