Yesterday my husband told me a story about something he experienced. He normally goes to work while it is still dark and as he walked past the gate, he discovered something frightening on the hood of our truck.
The flicker of the "thing" caused him to stop for a moment and evaluate. He said it was about the size of his hand and it appeared that it was focused on him as when moved, it moved as well. The truck was parked in the dark and the light of the porch was not enough to illuminate it. He proceeded cautiously until he was out of the dark and could see it clearly in the light.
When the light shone on the threat, he discovered it was a sycamore leafy. Yes...a leaf! The movement came from a light breeze. You know that sigh, that breath of relief you take when a threat is unfounded? He took that breath.
The point is that we are much the same. In darkness, we can not experience God and everything can be a threat. Oh we may think that we are "living a godly life" but often what we are doing is compromising and when we compromise, things can get scary.
In the dark, minor threats can become monumental, we can see things that are not really there and in the dark, we will definitely miss God's will. We may "pass through" the dark but God never intended us to linger and stay there.
So if you find yourself in the dark and things look threatening, run to the light! There is no darkness in Jesus Christ!
This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you; God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in darkness, we lie and do not
live out the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus, his Son purifies us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-7
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