“For You will light my lamp; the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness”
—Psalms 18:28
We have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light. The darkness in us, completely overwhelmed and illuminated by the light of Christ.
Yet a dimness remains. Seasons in the valley of the shadow of death. Dark times. Hard times.
But good news: the night, the darkness, it is as light to Him. And He is not afraid to be there with you.
But these dark times we experience—they must be differentiated from the darkness from which our souls have been delivered. That ultimate deliverance from darkness, it is not a feeling, but an eternal state. Whether or not you feel it, whether or not your circumstances appear to reflect it, if you have received Him be faith, you are delivered from the power of darkness. The darkness has no power over you because of Him.
It is He who has done this work, who has commanded His light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to the give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This treasure, this knowledge, this light we have, resides is in broken, weak, earthen vessels so that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
(1Peter 2:9; John 1:5; 1 Corinthians 13:12; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 139:12; Colossians 1:13; 2 Corinthians 4:6-7)
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