So as I stood on the patio, barely cognizant, my puppy ran into the dark, he is black and gray, and instantly disappeared past the edge of the light. We were working very hard to potty train him, and I needed to keep an eye on him, so I put up my hand to shield the very bright flood lights, lighting up part of the yard. As I did, the Lord said me, ‘You have to block out the Light to see into the darkness’. It really rocked me. I had been struggling with some anger and unforgiveness which was threatening to put in roots of bitterness and resentment, so there had been ugly thoughts.
If I was going to continue with those ugly thoughts, I realized I would have to turn from my Jesus, block out my Light, I was instantly awake. It only took a fraction of a second to make the decision, I wanted Jesus, I wanted the Light, I didn’t want to see in the dark, it didn’t matter.
It was spoken over Jesus as a baby when He was presented at the temple “He is a light to reveal God to all people.” Luke 2:32. Jesus Himself told us in John 8:12 “Jesus spoke to them saying ‘I am the light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life’”. At this point it would be easy to say, why would anyone chose to go into the darkness? Sometimes it’s by accident, we wander into the darkness and before we know it we are stuck. Sometimes circumstances contributes, sometimes we just flat out get rebellious and run into the darkness.
However we end up there, the enemy wants to keep us there. All it takes is for us to believe the lies and eventually we will allow the chains of them to bind us and some will even sit down thinking “this is just the way it is…..” NO, it is not just the way it is!
Your name once written in the Lambs Book of Life, is not just for some time in eternity, it is for now! HE has called you out of darkness into His wonderful light! (1 Peter 2:9) My friend, when Jesus said it is finished as He hung on the cross, He paid for our freedom, He lighted the way before me and I walked safely through the darkness (Job 29:3).
If you realize you are in the darkness and bound up by anger, hurt, bitterness, resentment, unforgiveness, shame, condemnation, unbelief, fear, what ever, get up, He said it in His word, there is a way out and He knows it! First John 1:5 gives us this; God is light and there is no darkness in Him at all.
How do I do it you ask? You call to Jesus, He will meet you where you are, He only has love and compassion and forgiveness for you, He wants you to get up out of your pit, out of where you have sat down in chains in the dark! Dive into Psalm 139. Don’t just read it once and go on, put your name in it, it was written for you. Believe it, it was written about you. Pray it out loud, God’s spoken word combined with prayer is powerful! Make it your hearts cry. Lies can not bind you when you let the living active power of God’s word work in you! Put on the armor of light (Romans 13:12) He has for you and run to Him, run into the Light! He already has the Light of Life for you, what are you waiting for?!
Thanks Alicia.
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