For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,� made His light
shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God
in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6
Let’s just say that this picture represents my life. Not
the picture itself, but the design and layout of the picture. And from left to
right is the progression of life. I mean it could represent many people’s
lives, but I want to explain how the Lord has revealed this image to me and
what He is doing right now.
Darkness…is
probably the word that I would use to describe the past 3 weeks of my life; a
place of sadness that I can’t explain; an overwhelming sense of heaviness for
things that I don’t even know about. And while most people would define this as a dry spell in my
walk with the Lord, I think it was He who brought me here. “I had to get you to
a place where you would no longer depend on anyone but Me; a place where
you could only look UP.�
So, while I am in this place, and looking up, and trying
to strip myself of the world and solely depend on God, I have come to the
realization that in the end of this transforming period, however long it might
take, and however hard it might be, there will be freedom and I
will merely be a reflection of the Lord and His
glory.
“Now we know that the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with
ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.� 2
Corinthians 3:17-18
So why
wouldn’t I want to be in this place? A place where God is molding
me, revealing truths to me about who I am, shaping me to be the person that He
has always created me to be, stripping ungodly things away from my life,
breaking me for His glory…why wouldn’t I want this transformation to occur?
Because it hurts…and it means that
we no longer have control of who we
are, that the pain of stripping and breaking is something that we are not use
to. But I have to keep telling myself…IT’S GOING TO BE WORTH IT.
“For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal
glory that far outweighs them all.� 2 Corinthians 4:18
Oh yea…back to the picture! As you go along your life the
Lord might bring you through dark, dark places (hence the black strips). And
you never know how long you will be in that place, but God won’t keep you
there forever; He will give you hope of the
life that He sees (a piece of the picture). And that hope will keep you going
because you know that the picture that God sees is so much more beautiful and
so much more full of light and life than anything you could ever imagine. But
the longer that life goes on, and the more you follow after Him and His heart
you begin to see more and more of the picture, you begin to understand that
there is more to this dark world, that there is purpose and meaning to behind
why we live and why we serve God. And you are living in more and more hope
because He is constantly revealing what true life is in Him, to where now, when
you go through a dark period you know you can handle it because light is coming
soon. And pretty soon, when we are together with Him we will no longer see ANY
darkness but only the picture that God has seen from the very beginning.
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