Spiritual growth

We see throughout Scripture and history that life disruptions are often catalysts for the most significant transformations in our lives, and the darkest valley is possibly the most powerful of them all. Indeed, it is only in the darkest valley, where we are wholly stripped of our pretentious self-sufficiency and compelled to rely utterly upon God, that God finally proves and reveals himself to us. Certainly, this process is painful and disconcerting, but when we find ourselves in the dark and discover that God is there, we cannot return unchanged.