light dispels darkness
Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about my life. As most of you know I am leaving for Grace College in August. I have been scared and worrying a lot about many different things. Dont get me wrong, i'm very excited and anxious to go, but at the same time i'm sad and scared.
Just recently i've come across a blog that a girl wrote about a comment she received from a writer by the name of Ted Dekker and it got me thinking, like most of what Ted writes tends to do.
She said that she overheard a girl tell Ted that he seemed to have no fears. And he responded by saying he was in deed a man without many fears. This girl then blurted out "why" and he looked at her and said..."because light dispels darkness." This has got me thinking.
I looked up some versus in the Bible and one that I found was John 12:46. "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness."
I personally believe that darness can be anything. Sin, fear, evil, anything that keeps you from showing and living out your life in the light of Christ. So, if I really do believe in Jesus, and Jesus is the light of the world, and believing in him keeps me out of the darness then why am I still afraid?"
Maybe if I believed that "light dispels darkness" deeper i'd be less afraid?
I've recently come to believe that sometimes God's light in us is hidden because we have too much of oursleves covering it up.
We get too caugh up in OUR plans, OUR goals, OUR lives, and OUR fears, that we are simply pushing God to the sideline and telling him that we dont need his help. We have everything under control.
I think that if we really believed how much we are truly loved by God and that he will always be here with us, our faith and life would radically change.
Just recently i've come across a blog that a girl wrote about a comment she received from a writer by the name of Ted Dekker and it got me thinking, like most of what Ted writes tends to do.
She said that she overheard a girl tell Ted that he seemed to have no fears. And he responded by saying he was in deed a man without many fears. This girl then blurted out "why" and he looked at her and said..."because light dispels darkness." This has got me thinking.
I looked up some versus in the Bible and one that I found was John 12:46. "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness."
I personally believe that darness can be anything. Sin, fear, evil, anything that keeps you from showing and living out your life in the light of Christ. So, if I really do believe in Jesus, and Jesus is the light of the world, and believing in him keeps me out of the darness then why am I still afraid?"
Maybe if I believed that "light dispels darkness" deeper i'd be less afraid?
I've recently come to believe that sometimes God's light in us is hidden because we have too much of oursleves covering it up.
We get too caugh up in OUR plans, OUR goals, OUR lives, and OUR fears, that we are simply pushing God to the sideline and telling him that we dont need his help. We have everything under control.
I think that if we really believed how much we are truly loved by God and that he will always be here with us, our faith and life would radically change.