02/22/2026
So I opened my Bible this morning like I always do. No bookmark. No theme. No plan. Just opened it and started reading.
And I about fell out of my chair.
My eyes landed on a verse I have read before but clearly never felt.
Isaiah 45:3
“I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.”
Treasures.
Of darkness.
That stopped me.
We pray to be delivered from dark seasons. We rebuke them. We beg God to hurry us out of them.
But this verse says there are treasures there.
Not in the spotlight. Not on the mountaintop. In the dark.
There are things you learn in grief you will never learn in comfort. There is authority forged in suffering that cannot be manufactured on a stage. There is intimacy with God that only grows when everything else has been stripped away.
Hidden riches.
Not obvious blessings. Not flashy miracles.
Hidden.
That means what you are walking through right now may not be punishment.
It may be positioning.
The darkness you thought was burying you may actually be the vault where God is storing something eternal.
And then the line that shook me:
“That you may know that I, the Lord, who call you by your name…”
He calls you by name.
Not by your failure. Not by your worst decision. Not by what they labeled you.
By your name.
Which means even in the dark, you are not lost.
Even in the valley, you are not anonymous.
Even in the waiting, Heaven knows exactly who you are.
God is not absent in hidden seasons. He is working in them.
The enemy wants you to curse the dark.
God says there are treasures in it.
Some of you are in a season that feels confusing, lonely, heavy.
Do not despise it.
There are riches being formed in you that comfort could never produce. There is faith being carved out of you that ease would have ruined. There is depth being built in you that applause could not sustain.
The darkness is not your grave.
It is your treasury.
And when God brings you out, you will not just be relieved.
You will be refined. You will be stronger. You will know Him in a way you never could have if the lights had stayed on.
I thought I was randomly opening my Bible this morning.
But Heaven had an appointment.
And if you needed this today, maybe it was not random for you either.
