From
all the conversations I have had in the last few days it is evident that there
are so many things going on that have no direction, nothing good coming from
them and lots of questions coming up.
Some of these people are dealing with not having work and no being able
to make ends meet. Others are dealing
with severe health problems.
Each
situation seems to have no end and no meaning, but that couldn’t be further
from the truth. In each of the
situations there is a purpose and a plan from God. God will teach us, grow us and guide us
through them.
Often
we come to the place where we see the proverbial light at the end of the
tunnel. That light may be the fact that
the end of the situation is soon. It
could be that the end is now where in sight.
But there is light. Light comes
from God. Read on:
1 John 1:5-9 NLT
This is the message we heard from Jesus
and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all. 6 So
we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in
spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth. 7 But
if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship
with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
8 If
we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the
truth. 9 But if we confess
our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse
us from all wickedness.
God is
light. Whether that light is at the end
of the tunnel or it is much bigger than that light. He wants to give us this light, and the real
light comes with the truth and letting the truth overtake every part of our
lives. Not just one day of the week,
like Sunday. Not just one part of our
relationships, like living with sin. Not
just one piece of anything. It is all or
nothing.
The eye is the lamp of the body; so
then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light.
When
God’s light fills our life, we allow God’s light to fill our life and our whole
body is full of light. What does that
mean? It is all or nothing. The light at the end of the tunnel is not the
last part. It is only the beginning.
It is
time to stop deceiving ourselves. It is
time to step away from the things that keep us from living in the light or just
seeing part of the light. God wants to
fill us. Just seeing the light is not
enough. It is when we embrace the light
of God that we allow the light at the end of the tunnel to consume our lives
and God directs us as he made us to be.
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