Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.
Birds merely following the impulse and power given to them by their Creator:
"Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
"Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?" (Matthew 6: 26-27)
Of course, we are worth far more than birds, the most inexpensive of sacrifices. In fact, Jesus promised to give us the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of God:
"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke 11:13)
and
"Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." (Luke 12:32)
and the proof that God has given these gifts? His own Son, delivered up for us:
"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
"He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8: 31-32)
"What I tell you in darkness" – watch where God puts you into darkness, and when you are there keep your mouth shut. Are you in the dark just now in your circumstances, or in your life with God? Then remain quiet. If you open your mouth in the dark, you will talk in the wrong mood: darkness is the time to listen. Don’t talk to other people about it; don’t read books to find out the reason of the darkness, but listen and heed. If you talk to other people, you cannot hear what God is saying. When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else when you get into the light.
Once again, Oswald Chambers fails to rightly divide the Word of God (cf 2 Timothy 2: 15)
For those who believe, outer darkness makes no difference, for we walk by faith, and not by sight (cf 2 Corinthians 5:7)
We have nothing to fear from darkness:
"Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness." (1 Thessalonians 5:5)
Darkness is no longer an issue for the believer. Only to the extent that a man insists on guiding his walk based on his circumstances, his feelings, his senses, his thoughts, only to that extent will a man stumble in darkness.
And there is a simple solution even to that:
"NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." (Psalm 119: 105)
His Word guides us. This verse is telling for other reasons. John writes in his gospel:
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
"The same was in the beginning with God.
"All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
"In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." (John 1:1-5)
Jesus is the Word, and we learn of Him to the extent that we receive of Him in the Scriptures. He is the Light of Men and of the World (cf John 8: 12). Even the Holy Spirit in Psalm 119: 105indicates the primacy of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as the Light, for the verse is the first line beginning the "NUN" section of that lengthy psalm. "Nun" in the Hebrew Alphabet represents seed (which is the Word, see Mark 4), and also the Son! The Holy Spirit ministering through the Psalmist wanted to make plain that the Word, the Light, obliterates all darkness. You just have to believe and receive Him!
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