I’m so grateful for the people who long ago showed me where to find the light switch for my soul.
Life was SO much better after turning that switch.
In a physical sense, I have plenty of reminders that walking in the dark is not a good idea.
Particularly from the knees down.
It’s a good thing that our big toes are big. For if they were the size of our little toes, we likely would have destroyed them long ago on bedposts, door frames, sidewalk curbs, etc..
As it is, we’ve all gone pentecostal at one time or another after smashing our toes into unseen, immoveable objects.
The fact is that life is better with light than without.
Life is better when I turn on the switch, physically and spiritually, than when I don’t.
Psalm 18:28 reminds me that, for the faithful person, God turns darkness into light.
Hallelujah!
Whenever I ask God to open my eyes and reveal His glory and provision into my path, my fears begin to fade.
I see more clearly the stepping stones that He has laid out and I am invited by the Holy Spirit to emerge from the shadows on the fringe of faith.
God calls me to trust Him as I take His hand and move toward eternity on the narrow path where there are no shadows.
God never drags us onto the path, my friend.
He simply invites.
Then He blesses as we throw the switch of trust within our hearts and minds.
Hmmmm…….
God is SO good at turning darkness to light.
God turns my darkness to light when I feel lost in a cave of carnal chaos from which nobody else would even want to find me, let alone lead me to safety.
God turns my darkness to light when I’m in a clueless fog about how to sincerely remedy a relationship screw-up.
God turns my darkness to light when I or someone I love is facing a health challenge for which medical workers have no encouraging answers.
God turns my darkness to light when I don’t know how to break through the faith-resistant shell of a dear friend who needs salvation in Jesus.
The fact is that every believer has experienced multiple occasions when God turned darkness to light. I encourage you to prepare a list of such occasions in your life so that you might cobble together a testimony of why trusting God is the best way to live.
With such a testimony, you’ll be better prepared to do that which Jesus also commissioned the Apostle Paul to do for the Gentiles:
“To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of their sins and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me” (Acts 26:18 KJV).
Jesus loved people and so He made the difficult choice to enter their chaotic, carnal world — with all its pitfalls and slop — so that some might turn the switch of their hearts from darkness to light.
Will you join me in praying for wisdom so that you and I might become more willing to do the same toward those in our lives still gripped by the lies of this chaotic, carnal world?
As always, I love you
Martin
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