You can't turn out a light shining from the inside” Steffany Gretzinger writes it beautifully in her song Blackout: We do not have to fear the darkness around us because His light is shining on the inside. We are to confidently let His light shine, positively impacting every area in our lives and the lives of those around us. Jesus instructs us, “Let your light shine before others”. He has given us His light to carry within us and shine wherever we go and through whatever darkness we may face. In Matthew 5, Jesus describes US as the light of the world. Because He is the light, we can be assured that when we walk with Jesus we are where we were created to be. We can’t make our own light or find it from other sources, we must draw directly from the eternally bright presence of Jesus himself.Īnd we were created for light. If we don’t follow Jesus then we walk darkness. Jesus is the light of the world and when we follow him, we walk in the light. Still for others, they may not understand their need for His bright presence in their lives. Others may not be aware of the hope that He brings. Although it may feel to some that they are consumed by darkness, the very presence of Jesus will alter their whole perspective.įor some it may be that they’ve never heard His name. Think of a candle in a pitch black room… all of a sudden there is enhanced vision and the ability for purposeful direction. Darkness may seem powerful and overbearing but as soon as you add so much as a faint glimmer of light then the whole atmosphere changes. Harnessing the power of the Holy Spirit we can choose to be the bright, shining beacon of hope that the world around us so longs to see. With Jesus living inside us, we radiate His light wherever we go. We don’t just know the answer to the pain, suffering and heaviness, we carry the answer. We only need to watch the news or read the headlines to be faced with the acute awareness that there are things not of God around us.īut as Christians we always have hope.
The reality is that it’s a feature of the fallen world around us.
LIVING IN DARKNESS HOW TO
Fundamentally, we always have a choice about how to engage with darkness.
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