Tormentors
After putting all the kids to bed, I sat down with my bible in the sitting room, my husband sitting on the adjacent couch with his TD Jakes book he was reading. I opened my bible and started reading the book of Isaiah 50. I read through the whole chapter and last two verses shocked me. It said "Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God. But now, all you who light fires and provide yourselves with flaming torches, go, walk in the light of your fires and of the torches you have set ablaze. This is what you shall receive from my hand: You will lie down in torment," Isaiah 50:10b-11 That same night my husband read a scripture in Psalms during our evening devotion with the children about trusting God and not princes. Now again this scripture talks about trusting God in the dark, where I don't have any light and to rely on Him. I thought about darkness, trying to imply it on my life. When a person is the dark, t