Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.Do we distress, and feel like to have no answers? (That is, do we "hath no light"?) Then fear God, trust him, and "stay" (i.e., "rely") on God.
That sounds easy, but our human inclination often leads us to rely on our own cleverness. Verse 11 (KJV) cautions against doing that,
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.So if we "hath no light," to use the phrasing from verse 10, do we try to "kindle a fire" ourselves, and "walk in the light" of those sparks that we have created? The verse notes that such reliance on self eventually leads us to "lie down in sorrow."
The Bible includes many such dichotomies, but this one is especially stark, particularly with its allegory involving "light." In our prayers, let us seek God's light, and not our own.
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