CERTAINTY

    Jesus Christ’s directive, “Report to John what you have seen and heard” (Luke 7:22), in response to John’s temptation to doubt that Jesus is God’s Messiah, assures us that when we, like John, experience spiritual blindness, disbelief, disappointment, despair, suffering, trials, turmoil, anxiety, fear, and the “dark night of the soul,” He, who created, knows, and loves us, is patient with us, never grows tired of our complaining, and blesses us whether skies are dark and threatening or cloudless and fair.