April 11th, 2018 - Light in the Darkness

April 11th, 2018 - Thoughts for your Week

Scripture: 2 Samuel 22:29-30

“You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale the wall."

Light in the Darkness

This season has been tough for me. I have struggled often and with so many different things these past few months. God has stirred me up to reveal sin that I didn’t know existed in me. He’s been breaking up my foundation and re-seeding it with His truth. It is good but hard work. But I know where my help comes from, and so, I keep returning to Him who is able.

God sets us in seasons. Some are good and easy, and others are hard and heavy. He uses these seasons to transform us. Only He knows the full capabilities He has set in us, and He is always working to make us all He created us to be.

But it’s a battle, isn’t it? Our human nature, our flesh, wants things our way in our time. Not His. And so, we wrestle. We are faced with choices all day long and if we don’t invite Him into these choices, whether they are big or small, we risk walking off the path He has set before us.

I’ve been reminded that He is constant. He never changes. It says in 1 Samuel 15:29; “He who is the glory of Israel does not lie or change His mind; for He is not a human being, that He should change his mind.” If anyone changes, it’s us, never Him. What a blessed truth for us to cling to!

If you are feeling distant from God in this season you are in, it’s you that’s moved away from Him. Draw close to Him. Change your thinking from “you” to “you and Him”. Invite Him into every aspect of your life. Talk to Him, just as you would a friend, throughout your day. Ask questions and expect an answer.

And never forget that you are chosen by God. He has summoned you and redeemed you because He loves you.

“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.”

Isaiah 43:1-3

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.”

- Micah 7:8