Don’t doubt in the darkness what God has revealed in the light.
I overheard a friend of mine tell this to someone once and it was as if I lightbulb went off. You know those moments when you hear something and you’re like, “Duh! Why had I never thought of that before!” Well this was one of those moments for me.
I have at many points in my life felt hopeless and felt as if I was drowning in darkness. I have been to the point where I wanted to end everything because I could find no hope or life in anything that this world had to offer, but then I met Jesus. I gave one final cry for help, closed my eyes, reached out my hand in surrender, and Jesus took hold. He pulled me out of the darkness and into the light; He embraced me, he told me about himself, he told me how he had been by my side the whole time waiting for me to surrender. Jesus told me that I was loved, that I was a son of the Father, that I was worth saving, and that he would never leave me.
Y’all God is good. And I would love to say that since that first encounter with Jesus that I have been on ‘the straight and narrow path’ but that’s just not true. My fleshly desires, my insecurities, wage war against the Holy Spirit in me every day and more often than not I give in to my insecurities and slip back into the mindset of being emerged in darkness.
It’s for that very reason that I must submit myself to the potter everyday of my life. “For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.”-??Hebrews? ?10:14. This is why I have hope friends; Jesus has made me perfect with His blood and He is making me Holy through His Spirit.
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”-??Galatians? ?2:20
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.”-??Hebrews? ?12:1-3?.
Jesus is the light, friends. And and he has revealed that there is life and hope and freedom in him. Don’t doubt Him.
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Blessings!
-Brandon
