So I awoke this morning and upon waking, I noticed that though I felt like I had gotten enough rest, I still felt sluggish. In fact, throughout the entire subway ride home, I fought hard as heck to keep my eyes open EVEN THOUGH I was standing up. Crazy as it may have been though, I DID notice something spectacular.
As I was standing there, I didn’t put a thought to the fact that it was considerably cloudy outside. What I did notice though was when the sunlight broke through the cloud cover and just illuminated everything. It reminded me of how sometimes the clouds from the storms that come into our lives can bring us to a state where we just assume the clouds are always there. We become so complacent with the cloud covers darkness, that we just look at it as a given, or as just a general fact of life.
The truth is that YES, storms are part of life, however we must NEVER forget the fact that though the clouds are there, the illumination of God, his pure light is what we have to focus on, ask for and sometimes even plead for to come and BREAK THROUGH those clouds. We cannot walk through life assuming that the cloud cover is just a fact. We MUST walk through life KNOWING, TRUSTING and believing that the sun’s light WILL break through the clouds and darkness. We must live WANTING God’s light to break through and illuminate, making the clouds darkness flee.
We must accept the fact that we live in this world. We must however realize and know that as children of God, followers of his ways, saved by grace and washed in the blood of Christ, we must live, not accepting the darkness that is around us, but accepting nothing LESS than living so the darkness would have NO PLACE in our lives. Striving for God’s light of truth to not only shine INTO us, but also reflect from us so as to be the light of the world that Jesus Christ said we are in Matthew 5:14-16 “Here’s another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill. If I make you light bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand, SHINE! Keep open house; be generous with your lives, by opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up to God, this generous father in heaven”
We must step out of the darkness and NOT accept it, but instead ACCEPT that God’s light in us is what SHOULD be the standard upon which our lives are founded. We must do this, not just for ourselves so we could live completely guided by the unfailing and never wrong illumination of God’s light, but also because we must be the ones who reflect God’s light into the lives of others, illuminating their path so they could also seek to follow that same light.
Dear reader, we are the light of the world, but we must FIRST be illuminated ourselves so we could be placed upon God’s hill, where we will reflect his light of salvation into this world of darkness. STRIVE to allow God’s light to completely illuminate your life. Accept NOT the darkness and make God’s light the foundation of your life.
Be blessed and be illuminated...
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