DARKNESS CANNOT STAMP OUT LIGHT UNLESS IT IS ALLOWED
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“Let your
light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your
Father in heaven”.—Matthew 5:16
When God created the heavens and the
earth, the first recorded words that He spoke were, “Let there be light” (Genesis
1:3 emphasis added). Light is what illuminates the darkness,
makes something visible and to make something easier to understand. Jesus said
“I have come as a light into the
world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness” (John 12:46 emphasis
added). Jesus, the light of the world, is not a temporal light that can be
turned on and off. He is not like a
light switch.
Science has discovered that light travels and that it is a continuum—it
goes on and on and on…. He is the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the
end. No darkness can destroy God’s plan
for eternity. “In the beginning was the
Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without
Him nothing was made that was made. In
Him was life, and the life was the light of
men. And the light shines in
the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:1-5 emphasis
added).
When Jesus comes into your life, it
is His light that descends into you. “For you were once darkness, but now you are
light in the Lord. Walk as children of
light” (Ephesians 5:8). If there is darkness in any area of your life, do
not settle for it. Do not allow
sickness, fear, doubt, worry or anything else to cloud your light. Darkness cannot stamp out light unless it is
allowed. Do not settle for a flickering
of light in your life. Let the light of
Jesus to continually shine through you.
God
uses people to guide others to their destination. Philip, the evangelist, is an example of a
person used by God to guide someone
else, “And he [the eunuch] said, ‘How can
I, unless someone guides me?” (Read the full account in Acts 8:26-40). Light
does not put its finger in people’s faces condemning them. Light
always guides. “that
you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the
midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world” (Philippians 2:15). True light will always guide you
to Jesus. If you are following a light that is not pointing you to
Jesus, you are, then, following the wrong light.
Prayer—Father
I thank You that You sent Jesus to be the light of the world and that light now
lives and shines through me. Today I
purpose to allow my light to shine in a greater way then it ever has before so
that others may see You, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.
