What Is It About Me?

Good morning as the summer heat continues. Please remember to pray for our nation and for rain across our land. Alrighty then! You and me are in this hole. We don't know entirely how it got so deep, so quickly, and we don't see a way out of it right now. All seems dark, yet Jesus is the light. What is it about me that cannot see the light at this moment? Did God leave me to the Devil for a season so that I might learn a lesson? What lesson am I to learn. Do you see the light on your side of the hole? Nope, what is it about you that cannot find the light? Are we not both Christian in name. Did we do something wrong to get here? I may not fall for the prosperity gospel, but a little relief would be nice right about now. Of course, we know that by staring into the darkness we will never see the light.

Jesus allows us to soak up all the darkness we want, if that is what we want to look at daily. The better way is to look to the light. One way to see light is to read the Word that is the Light and the Life. God left us His word so that we might read it often, regularly, deeply, and especially in times of deep darkness in our lives. We tend to turn away from the word just when we need to study it most. Things go badly at work and we blow off reading the Bible that day. Things on the financial front seem worse than ever. We get away from reading the word of God and turn to the Dummie's Guide to Finding Money in the Sofa by Shirley Yurnotseareyus. What is it about us that turns from God just when we need Him most?

We listen to that old nemesis, our old evil nature; that force in us Paul called the flesh. We listen to the nature that tells us that all is lost, never will we see again the light of day. Not once in our lives will a time of calm come when we listen to that sin nature. Even when a time of peace arrives, the flesh will tell us to watch out for the cliffs ahead. The Word of God does say that we will have tribulation, but it also reminds us to take courage and fear not, for "I have overcome the world!" Live for the Word of God, seek Him daily in the word of God. It may seem nothing but an old saw, but the darkness really does seem greatest just before the dawn breaks.

God loves you!
Bucky