John 12:35, "Then Jesus told them, 'You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. The man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going. Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light.'"
I have to meet with my Lord every day. I must! I know how weak I am, and I know how far I can fall when the darkness surrounds me. There was a time in my young life when I thought I could do "it" on my own. I thought that I would have enough strength to overcome the trials facing me. I learned the hard way. I learned just how weak I really was.
I had been married for about one year. During that year, things were pretty hard, but most all young marriages are. Especially if they are trying to do it on their own. You need others to help you; you need Christ to guide you. I thought, "If I just hang in, I will be able to do this." We lived in a camping trailer at a KOA campground in Abilene Texas. I had plants all around me, for I needed the life they gave me. It was when the plats died that death over took me. The illusion of life for me, was in the plants that surrounded me. The light and life that I was seeking was in something more fragile than I was.
People put their faith in so many things. Some, put their faith in their youth. This had failed me, for my body was overcome with MS. Others, put their faith in a person. This too had failed me, for my faith was in a man to rescue me from my sin. The things we tend to put our security in, are so often things that will always fail us; in money, marriage, children, nature, friends, substances, pornography... the list goes on and on. But there is only one place that will never fail us. In this one place we can find freedom. In this one place we can find fulfilment. But here is the catch, if we do not seek Him in the light, He will find us in the darkness. That darkness is the loneliest place that we can ever go. In that darkness, we discover that we must turn to Him or die. That is why I seek Him in the light. For, I have been overcome by the darkness, without a spark to guide me. I have found myself empty and with no one to help me. I pray that when the darkness tries to come again, this time I will be prepared with His light to guide me.
Oswald Chambers, "Even the very smallest thing that we allow in our lives that is not under the control of the Holy Spirit is completely sufficient to account for spiritual confusion, and spending all of our time thinking about it will still never make it clear. Spiritual confusion can only be conquered through obedience. As soon as we obey, we have discernment. This is humiliating, because when we are confused we know that the reason lies in the state of our mind. But when our natural power of sight is devoted and submitted in obedience to the Holy Spirit, it becomes the very power by which we perceive God’s will, and our entire life is kept in simplicity." I want to see clearly, when the darkness of this world tries to over come me. It is only when I have gained the strength in the "easy" times that His words will come to me in the dark. The problem is, we too often wait until hard times to seek Him. Then we feel completely overwhelmed and we tend to give in to the struggle. Seek Him every day, so you can still see in the night.
http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/my-utmost-for-his-highest/09/14/devotion.aspx?year=2009
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