When God hath withdrawn the light of his countenance, and night comes on, and those damps and fogs of jealousies and guilt begin to arise out of a man’s own heart; then come these forth, and say, as David’s enemies said in his distress, ‘Come let us now take him, for God hath forsaken him;’ let us now devour him, and swallow him up with sorrow and despair.
And as God says of those enemies of his church, Zech. 1:15, ‘I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction;’ so when God is angry with his child, and but a little, and doth hide his face but for a moment, yet Satan watcheth that hour of darkness, as Christ calls it, Luke 22:53, and joins his power of darkness to this our natural darkness, to cause, if possible, blackness of darkness, even utter despair, in us.
Thomas Goodwin. A Child of Light Walking in Darkness.
