by beogravel deviantart.com
Everyone or at least most people know of the Bible verse Genesis 1:3 'And God said "Let there be light", and there was light.' Yes there is light and we are surrounded by light and when we hang with God we have light in us. I was 2 the first time I asked "Jesus into my heart." All I knew was there He was good and that He died so that we could live and I believed that this was good. So I guess that's the day many people would say I was a Christian and Light lived in me.
This was all good and great and Godly but did I really understand? That is the question noone can answer. I know though that God honoured the longing I had to have goodness in my life and there were many times I felt and heard him while I grew up. Light was and is my friend.
Many of us can relate to times in their lives they have let the shadows in or they seemed to take over. I have many such times and as the shadows came I would start to give into them. Why? I didn't actually believe I had light IN me. I know I am not the only one that at times have let the shadows take over and there are years in my life sometimes years at a time that I lived in the shadows believing the light was far away as I believed the lie that light was for others and not for me.
by simplelifegirl devinantart.com
Luke 11:34
Your eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye ( your conscience) is sound and fulfilling its office, your whole body is full of light; but when it is not sound and is not fulfilling its office, your body is full of darkness.
by Mysois deviantart.com
I didn't believe in the light that lived in me and therefore the light was darkness, it no longer existed as God does not force His agenda onto you. Luke 11:35 says Be careful, therefore that the light in you is not darkness. I was living still in darkness!If we don't come to God and ask Him to live in us realising that as Christ died so does our old selves we actually stay unbelievers and living in darkness! We are light, when we ask God to take over we become new people, we no longer have darkness!!! When we realise that we can command the shadows in our lives to leave! GOOD GOD!
It's like it says in Isaiah 9:2-3
Those who walked in the dark
have seen a bright light.
And it shines upon everyone
who lives in the land
of darkest shadows.
Our LORD, you have made
your nation stronger.
Because of you, its people
are glad and celebrate
like workers at harvest time
or like soldiers dividing up
what they have taken.
When we claim what is rightfully ours, when 'wake up' and realise we no longer need to live in the land of the darkest shadows we can take the land and cause it to light up! Imagine living like that! Walking into dark places and not needing a torch or walking into a dodgy situation and bringing everyone to their knees and drawing them into the light! Isn't that what God intended for us? How else do we pray for the sick and see them recover? It's simply chasing the shadows away!
x LIGHT BE x
