2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, "Let there be light in the darkness," has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.
My Thoughts
I love learning about God and his goodness. With every tidbit of knowledge I get my life gets better and better. God is goodness and love. God is mercy and kindness. God is forgiving and caring...all of this make our hearts fill with light. The best picture I can give to this is the feeling our heart gets is when we see the morning sun shine on new snow...and the innocence of a rabbit sitting calmly in the distance. All is perfect and peaceful. The day seems perfect for rest, for comfort. I also get a similar feeling during the first days of spring...you can open your door...the wind in the air is just right so refreshing, the birds are singing, the flowers make the day beautiful... it just makes you want to accomplish something wonderful. There are so many possibilities just in the air. God is like that, always giving us a new start, a new beginning, another chance to do life right. I believe God made new days so we could always have a chance to begin again to do better and better and better.
The devil on the other hand is all darkness and gloom. When the devil can get you to believe all the bad he whispers in our heads he can send such a vale of darkness over our hearts. He can take one persons words and put thoughts in our head and turn our day around in a heartbeat if we listen. He can make us feel like the forest on a dark night with noises we don't understand, where every branch we step on feels like a wild animal about to attack. All the shadows are ominous every noise seems loud. All the forest is out to get us it seems.
The funny thing about that darkness of the forest is in the light of day it isn't scary at all.... Nothing is what it seemed. The monsters were the shadows of trees...the snakes were leaves on the ground... the moving animals were branches we stepped on. Our mind just played tricks on us. All the innocence of the forest is still there... we just can't see it in the darkness.
God's love is like the morning sun...it enables us to see the world as it was intended to be. With the light of God's love in our hearts we can see love, we can have forgiveness's, we see the goodness in people. We put their words right in our heart, giving them the benefit of the doubt. We forgive and are able to move on. We can know that the mistakes or unkindness-es of others is the devil spinning his darkness and we know to pray, and love and forgive. That forgiveness, those prayers not only adds to the lives of others it also makes our hearts happier. When we mess up we know God will forgive us and make our lives like the sun on new snow... all the blemishes of our mistakes buried and gone. When we put God's words in our hearts we can use them to chase away the darkness the devil tries to put in our lives. We can make room for the springtime!!
The thing is we have to make the choice to have the light of the glory of God. We have to make an effort. But when we do and when we truly "get it," we have a spot light so shine, even on the darkest of days, that tells us the truth of the forest. We have new snow to bury our blemishes, and we have the springtime full of possibilities!
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