John Mark Comer Teachings The Dark Night of the Soul: Part 2 | Naming Your Stage of Apprenticeship E7
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Oct 21, 2022 AI Snips
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Scripture Speaks Honest Dryness
- Psalm 77 models the felt experience of divine absence and honest wrestling in prayer.
- Scripture gives multiple metaphors (dark night, desert, cloud, pruning) to normalize spiritual dryness.
Rose Bush Pruning Memory
- Comer shares a childhood rose-bush pruning story to illustrate painful but necessary pruning.
- The bush looked dead for weeks then grew fuller the next season, showing pruning yields new life.
Absence Can Be God's Presence
- The dark night is when God removes the felt sense of his presence but not his actual presence.
- This absence aims to purify the soul for greater freedom, love, and intimacy with God.