Gods' Creation (Photo credit: Kamoteus (A New Beginning))

I walk through the house in the dark, feeling my way through the halls.  Obviously, when the light is on I walk differently because my eyes receive what they need to help me walk without hesitation.  I drive my truck through the night by turning on the headlights.  I look down at the instruments and am able to read them because they are lit.  The moment I turn off the lights I am bound to have trouble.

It comes to mind that God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all.  Therefore He never stumbles.  What is this light of God?  The light of God is righteousness.  We who serve Him have heard of this.  But I see how we often desire the darkness.  I see how we seek out a shadow so we can ponder a return to the land of Egypt.  We are fooled by remembering how sweet the food was there.  But we forget how destructive was the slavery.  We forget how they forced us to kill our children; all the males of the Israelites were to be killed.

Encourage yourself, as even now I remember these things.  Encourage one another, as even now I do to you.  Let us allow the light to enter in.  Let us turn off the darkness.  Let us not look behind and yearn for what was surely to destroy us.  But let us learn to desire the Life of God, that it might appear stronger within us than the darkness that had covered us.  Recall the following scripture and strive to apply it to our every second of time that will be granted to us in this place of testing.

¹ Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children ²and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

³ But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. ⁴ Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. ⁷ Therefore do not be partners with them.  (Ephesians 5)

Father in Heaven, please grant that I should learn what my heart has known.  It is my fingers which placed these letters in that specific order.  I have understood this.  May You grant that I may know it to the doing.  Amen.