Wednesday, May 8, 2013

When Darkness Seems To Prevail

No matter how small a light seems, it is powerful.

I hate a little, tiny blue light in my bedroom. It comes from some electronics on the other side of the room from our bed, and it is ridiculously bright. You know what I mean, how research shows we need total blackout darkness to get a good night sleep? And then there's this tiny, blue but so-bright-light that interrupts great sleep. We try to cover it up, but inevitably something happens and there it is again, persistent, shining.

When it seems like darkness is winning....

GOD-IS-LIGHT.

Like that little blue light, He pierces the darkness. He's persistent, present, powerful, forever. Just as natural light travels forever, never ending, His light never fails, 

The revelator, John, tells us that "God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." (1 John 1:5)

Occasionally we buy into the thought that we can hide, or that the darkness in our life wins, and it's kind of like our trying to cover this blue light - LIGHT ALWAYS WINS. If there is light, darkness flees from it. Our hiding is impossible, darkness is banished.

GOD-IS-LIGHT

At times we focus on the darkness and it appears imposing - we may feel threatened, afraid, angry even. We look at it so much that it becomes our focus and we begin to become swallowed up in it. What are we doing? Light kills the darkness.

We don't have to fight the dark, we have to let the light shine.
Let God shine in your dark places.
Let God shine through you to others.
You don't have to be the light - He is.
Get connected, stay connected, to Him.

Give up the idea that darkness wins.

Light wins. God wins
Eternal.Present.Powerful.God