For Every Valley, A Mountain

Why is it that when life presses in close and the light fails and the ground gets soft we convince ourselves that it must be the end? What I'm saying is that in the valley, we tend to think that we've come there to stay. But who, when hiking in a natural valley for example, keeps their nose pointed at the ground below and never looks up to the heights above?

Let's not convince ourselves when days are dark that they will always be so. It's in the valley of the shadow where we find pools of refreshing, where the LORD prepares us a table to sustain us in plain sight of our enemies.

Trust usually means you can't actually see the safety net, the rod of comfort or the road to safety. That's why it's called trust, and that's why we can't depend on our own understanding, but must fully rely on the love God has for His own.