The Dark Night of the Soul
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In the midst of his suffering, Job cursed the day he was born. Today, Derek Thomas reflects on this passage, teaching that there is hope for those who find themselves on the brink of despair.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Derek Thomas is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Our lives can be filled with many ups and downs, peaks and valleys. |
| 0:05.1 | There are times of great euphoria, times of special peace, special sense of God's presence, |
| 0:11.5 | and then there are times when God seems far away. |
| 0:13.9 | And they descend into a very dark place and wish they'd never been born. |
| 0:30.6 | Music and wish they'd never been born. Well, unfortunately, that sense of despair afflicts many people, sometimes even the Christian. And those seasons are sometimes referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul. |
| 0:35.6 | If that's you or you know someone in that season, |
| 0:39.3 | keep listening today on renewing your mind |
| 0:41.0 | and consider sharing this message with family and friends. |
| 0:45.6 | You're getting a taste this week of Derek Thomas's very practical series, |
| 0:50.1 | The Book of Job, a series recorded to help us learn to trust God and to say with Job, |
| 0:56.2 | Blessed be the name of the Lord. If you'd like this entire series to add to your collection, |
| 1:02.0 | we'll send you the DVD and unlock all 12 messages and the study guide in the free Ligeneer app |
| 1:07.9 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org |
| 1:11.7 | before this offer ends tomorrow. |
| 1:14.1 | And along with the DVD, we'll send you R.C. Sproll's title, Why is There Evil? |
| 1:19.5 | The good news is that there is hope, even for those who find themselves in the place that Dr. Thomas described earlier. |
| 1:26.2 | Here he is to explain where that hope is found. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, we come to Job chapter 3. |
| 1:35.4 | This is a dark night of the soul passage. |
| 1:39.5 | It probably doesn't get much darker than this chapter in the whole of the Bible except maybe our Lord |
| 1:46.9 | Jesus in Githemone. Let's read a few verses from chapter 3. After this, Job opened his mouth and |
| 1:57.4 | cursed the day of his birth. How much time has gone since chapters one and two since the loss of his children, the loss of |
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