Let me tell you what lead up to that darkest day.
In June on a warm summer day I married my high school sweetheart. We were so much in love, so excited about the future.
I already a good job and an apartment and together we started our new life. In just a few months we received the news that we were going to have a baby. Christmas took on a new perspective as we celebrated the birth of Christ we began looking forward to the birth of our own child.
We began to stock up diapers, bottles and all the things that will be needed to bring a baby into your family. The future looked bright as we planned together for this new little life that would soon arrive. That bright future turned very dark in just a few short hours.
At seven months into the pregnancy something went terribly wrong. There was blood and water and excruciating pain. We quickly made a panic filled drive to the emergency room. My wife was rushed away and I felt a fear that I had never experienced in my life. My wife was dying along with my unborn child.
The medical staff was doing everything that could be done but this was not going to be a day filled with sunshine but one that would become the darkest day of our life. The doctor walked into the waiting room to inform me that they had done all that could be done. That they could not stop the labor and that my wife had given birth to a very small premature baby boy. My wife was going to be okay but the baby although alive at the moment would not survive.
I entered the room to be with my wife and they brought that little tiny bundle wrapped in a blanket and placed him in her arms. We named him Jason and for just a few short hours we held our first born son. That day of his birth that we had so looked forward to had now become the darkest day of our life.
We have faith in the resurrection and know that our son went directly to heaven.
On that day when God watched His Son die on the cross darkness also covered the earth for three hours. The penalty of sin was death and only through accepting Jesus Christ as Lord will anyone see heaven. What gives me hope is knowing that God knows my pain, and offers His amazing comfort that can only be found in Him. Only Jesus can bring hope and healing into your darkest day.
On that day when God watched His Son die on the cross darkness also covered the earth for three hours. The penalty of sin was death and only through accepting Jesus Christ as Lord will anyone see heaven. What gives me hope is knowing that God knows my pain, and offers His amazing comfort that can only be found in Him. Only Jesus can bring hope and healing into your darkest day.