I was looking on my phone this evening and I came across this picture on Instagram, and the more I looked at it the more I was amazed by the last persons statment (“It had never even occurred to me that there were parts of this planet where lightning bugs are not indigenous). See, I live in Oklahoma where you know its summer when the lightning bugs started coming out and there were always so many flying around our yards that you would see who was able to catch the most in a jar or you would try to catch one and close your hands together and peer inside just enough to see him light up a few times before you would let him fly away, and as I grew to be a little bit older I didn’t really stop to look at the lightning bugs as often as I use to because they really weren’t as mesmerizing to me as they were when I was a child.
As I have been fundraising and telling others about the WR I have had so many people who are so excited for me but I also have had the few that seem confused on why I would want to leave my home to places that from the US standpoint is “dangerous” or giving up the comfort of home for a backpack and tent, and the more I think about it the more I think of how God, and his purpose, relates to a little lightning bug.
I think in America we see God like small-town people see lightning bugs, because when we grow out of that child like faith after becoming a new christian or we start to walk away from the LORD that is when we stop taking the time to admire him and take the time to be with him just like how I was with lightning bugs when I got older. So when I saw this post about countries that don’t have lightning bugs I started thinking about how God relates to the lightning bug. Looking at bugs in a big open field at night is something that I wish everyone could see so of course I would want to be able to take lightning bugs to the people in these countries (and states) so they could see the amazing phenomanon of a lightning bugs light, so just like the lightning bug I see Gods light shining in my everyday life so of course I would want to take that to other countries so that they could all see his light too.
In 1 John 1:5 it says, “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” So as we continue to run the race that is living our lives for his purpose we must think about how his light is like a lightning bug: We must take it to the parts of this planet where it is not indigenous.
