Light vs Darkenss

Ephesians 5

God, you are Light!  Nothing ever bad comes through You!  You will light our path when darkness from this sinful world hits us or when simply unwanted things enter our lives, because YES it will hit and we must be able to see light to feel safe, not alone, HOPE, not lost, comforted, relief, capable, able  to see when darkness comes!

Imagine getting home at midnight and pulling up to your house and no outside light on - darkness.  Now enter your house and the light switch will not work - darkness.  You are surrounded in complete utter darkness!  Atomically you begin to feel – anxiety, fear, alone, vulnerable, scared, panic, claustrophobic, (this truly makes my heart race simply typing this)!  Then you try the light switch one more time (you have already tried it 100 times) and all of a sudden you are surrounded by light!!  The complete and utter darkness is instantly – instantly -  gone!  Now you feel – relief, comfort, warmth, gratefulness, peace, happiness, joy, overhelmness, thankfulness, calmness, hope. 

These are things that God - who is Light - brings daily into us, if we allow Him.  There will always be darkness – BUT – the darkness doesn’t’ have to control us!

Living a life with God doesn’t keep us safe or untouched by the darkness – BUT – it allows a constant light to shine so we are never alone in the dark!  We will always have a sense of Hope, Joy, Love , Grace and we won’t feel alone when we chose to allow God to light our life and shine brighter than our darkness.

 So when darkness edges closer and invades our space (because you all know it will), it will be hard, devastating at times, depressing, unimaginable – BUT – it will be impossible to stay in that mindset because God Is Our Light!  When He is our light we will be able to walk through that darkness that has invaded our space and know that we are not walking it alone and have faith that God is the only one who can fight the darkness and defeat it!!  We will never know what the outcome of our darkness will be – BUT – we will never doubt that God will Fight!!