{"id":6719,"date":"2021-10-04T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:00:08","slug":"you-are-not-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/you-are-not-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Not Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jesus shouted to the crowds, &#8216;<span class=\"red\">If you trust me, you are trusting not only me, but also God who sent me.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"red\">For when you see me, you are seeing the one who sent me.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"red\">I have come as a light to shine in this dark world, so that all who put their trust in me will no longer remain in the dark.'&#8221; John 12:44-46, NLT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/hopeandencouragementbible\/\">Devotional from the\u00a0<em>DaySpring Hope and Encouragement Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6720 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Untitled-design-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" \/>God isn\u2019t afraid of the dark. He\u2019s not scared of the secret places in our hearts. The ones that haven\u2019t seen daylight for years. The kind with the locks on the doors.<\/p>\n<p>God isn\u2019t afraid of the dark. He\u2019s not running scared from the tragedies in our lives. He\u2019s not backing away from the brokenness and the bitterness and the shattered dreams.<\/p>\n<p>God isn\u2019t afraid of the dark. He\u2019s not avoiding the struggles or the addictions. He\u2019s not waving His hands in surrender to the enemies of our souls. He\u2019s not saying, \u201cThis is too much for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God isn\u2019t afraid of the dark. In the beginning he spoke life-words into it and said, <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6721 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Tyndale-DaySpring-Hulthen-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"193\" \/>\u201cLet there be light.\u201d Then he came as a baby into a midnight world and announced his arrival with a shining star. He conquered death in a dark tomb and rolled the stone away, making a way into the brightness for us all.<\/p>\n<p>God isn\u2019t afraid of the dark. This means we don\u2019t ever have to be either. Even when we can\u2019t feel him through the longest nights, right in the thick of it\u2014he is always there.<\/p>\n<p>Holley Gerth, <em>Promises from God for Life\u2019s Hard Moments<\/em><\/p>\n<p>God, you have never been afraid of the dark and you won\u2019t ever be. Instead, you turn the darkness into light. You have done so from the very beginning of creation, and you still bring light into each of our lives and hearts today. We ask you to radiate your love where it\u2019s needed most. Amen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/hopeandencouragementbible\/\">Learn more about the\u00a0<em>DaySpring Hope and Encouragement Bible<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6587\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/08\/IMG_8378.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jesus shouted to the crowds, &#8216;If you trust me, you are trusting not only me, but also God who sent me.\u00a0For when you see me, you are seeing the one who sent me.\u00a0I have come as a light to shine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[338,30,25,119],"tags":[340,344],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6723,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions\/6723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tyndale.com\/tyndalebibles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}