Key scripture-“O LORD, when you favored me, you made my mountain stand firm; but when you hid your face, I was dismayed” (Psalm 30:7).

It is often difficult to recognize the hand of God when we are in the midst of adversity. We often feel God has hidden His face from us. When the Lord takes us through deep valleys, there will be fruit from the deep valley that we cannot see, but you must press into Him with all you have during this time.

God uses the deep valley to frame our lives to create a change in our nature and our character, not just a change in habits. The depth and width of our valley is often an indicator of the level of calling and influence we will have on others in the future.

Our adversity is not just for us, but others who will be in our future path of influence. This is not very comforting when you are in the middle of the valley, but you need to know this is a truth in the Kingdom.

It is often years later when we discover the wisdom of God and why He intentionally led us through the dark valley. Life is often lived forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we stand on the mountain looking back at the valley that we can appreciate the terrain God has allowed us to scale and the spiritual deposits He has made in our life while we were there. God provides refreshing springs, which are blessings, along the way. “What joy for those whose strength comes from the Lord, who have set their minds on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. When they walk through the Valley of Baca (Weeping), it will become a place of refreshing springs. The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings. They will continue to grow stronger, and each of them will appear before God in Jerusalem.” (Psalm 84:5-7).

When you begin to realize this, you sit back and breathe a sigh of relief because you know that God was in control all along. It didn’t seem like it at the time, but know you know, that you know, that you know, that He was and still is in control. “He reveals the deep things of darkness and brings deep shadows into the light” (Job 12:22).

Do you find yourself in the valley right now? Now is the time to fully trust God to guide you to higher ground, and He will do it because between every mountain is a valley, and your new mountain experience is waiting for you.

Pray this – Our Precious Heavenly Father, I am in the valley right now and instead of fretting, doubting and letting fear take over, I will stop and remember all the times that You have been faithful to me and all the times You were faithful to all of the people in the Bible. You are always faithful even when I am faithless. Each morning I am going to take all the crazy fears that I have and give them to You and say, Father, I do not know what to do about this situation. I can’t handle this so I give it to You and I want You to show me what it looks like to trust You in this situation, with this person, and with this decision. I know that I will be able to look back and see when and how You answered my prayer. I will be still and wait for You to guide me and counsel me on what to do next. I can’t wait to see how you use this for my good and your glory. In Jesus’ Name, I pray, Amen.