A Light in the Darkness

Sometimes God causes you to wander through the darkness so the light inside your soul will shine brighter, drawing the attention of others who blindly wander in the dark without a light.

 

Sometimes, God causes you to wander through the darkness so the light inside your soul will shine brighter, drawing your attention to God—the light of the world.

Sometimes we are blinded or distracted by the lights around us that we don’t truly see the light of Jesus. Those other lights may be artificial, Satan-manufactured lights like disguised tragedies. Or they can be well-meaning things that have taken on an artificial light—stuff like going into slumps of going-through-the-motions.

Sometimes, perhaps, God allows Satan to test our desire for going to church, for singing, for serving in different ministries. Satan places circumstances around us like a person who makes us feel worthless, or a system that pressures us in doing things just to be able to say “I did x-amount of such-such, I’ve done enough to keep people off my back.” When that continues, our desires for those things dwindle. Why go to church if you are made to feel worthless? Why serve if you’re forced into thinking you have to do such-such just to keep people off your back?

 

Thus begins our journey in the darkness. We no longer have the lights of ministry, church, or motions around us. The only lights in sight are the lights in the distance(who knows where they lead?) and the light in our souls. However, right now that light isn’t shining too brightly.

 

Suddenly, there a flash of light emits from our souls, illuminating a pathway in front of us—away from the other lights. But as quickly as the light shone brightly, the light dimmed back to its previous luster.

 

We have a choice: Stand here, doing nothing, blinded by the darkness created by circumstances; Step toward the pathway that just was lit up by the light in our souls; or Walk toward the lights in the distance.

 

God’s will in all of this is for us to choose the path(Not the tragedies in the distance, disguising themselves as lights), and follow the path until the light in our souls shines as bright as the sun. And once that light shines as bright as the sun, we are no longer in darkness. And the circumstances that darkened the skies previously can now be resolved. The person who made you feel worthless can be confronted. Confrontation doesn’t guarantee resolution. Confrontation guarantees a clear conscience on your part. 

The system that pressured you to do things just to please man now encourages you to do things to please God and deepen your relationship with him—to grow.

 

Because you are dwelling in the light, you can see you are not worthless. Because you are in the light, you can see that the pressure in the system was a pressure to please God all along(or at least its purest intentions are such).

 

That is God’s will for darkness. He didn’t create it, but he allows it. When it is allowed, the light we took for granted before becomes much more valuable to us.

 

Don’t pile on the blankets on the light in our souls when darkness shrouds us. Don’t close your eyes to the small bursts of light that radiates from our souls, directing us to the brighter day. God wants you to cling to the light in our souls—to cling to Jesus. When we abide in Him, his light grows. Not because it was insufficient to begin with, but as the window of our soul is washed clean, the light is more brightly seen.

 

-Kevin