LIGHT IN THE GARAGE
The fluorescent lights in my garage started
flickering a while ago. I was afraid it would be a complicated fix so I put off
getting an electrician. Finally, we did it. Jane made the call. The electrician
came, took one look at the lights and told us it was just that the ballasts
were old. He checked with our house insurance and they paid for all the new
parts. It only cost $55.00.
We are afraid of the
things we don’t understand, in the physical as well as the spiritual. But so
often the fix is not nearly as difficult as we anticipate.
There was a good side and a
bad side to getting the lights repaired. The good side was that we could see
everything. The bad side was that we could see everything! WOW, so much dust
and disarray had collected in my garage when the lights were flickering and
low! It’s the same with us spiritually.
I have been working so
hard at getting volume two of WINGS out, that my time in just reading the Bible
was like the garage lights—flickering. Then yesterday I took several hours away
from home to just sit and study the Word of God. I did a word study on the word
“sleep.” In the process, I ended up reading many exciting chapters of the Bible
and got all kinds of new light on some current world situations as well as
things in my own life. It was thrilling.
Even in the very first
verses of the Bible, God talks about light: “And God saw the light, that
it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness” (Gen.
1:4).
The thing about light is
that it exposes any darkness. So when I had new bright lights in my garage, I
could see that I had work to do. I can now see the mess! Time to clean up.
Psalm 18:28 says, “For thou wilt light my candle: The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.” If we want the dark places
of our lives to be lightened, we need to get that light of God turned on. First
Corinthians 4:5 tells us: “Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the
Lord come, who both will bring to light the
hidden things of darkness, and
will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have
praise of God.”
The
supposition here is that every man will have praise from God because he or she
has sought light from the Lord; the light has revealed the darkness and the
person has received the exchange of light for the former darkness. Then God is
super happy because light and clarity and peace is prevailing. Confusion, filth
and fear has been removed. Isn’t that what we all want?
We get
lazy sometimes and make excuses for ourselves. I know I was lazy about getting
someone to fix my garage lights. Then because I couldn’t see out there very
well, I didn’t bother sweeping the floor. I didn’t see that some of my supplies
had tipped over and that I needed an all over general clean up. I asked myself,
“What happened? It used to be clean and
organized out here!” But without proper light, something awful happened. Yikes!
God is
light and His “word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Ps. 18:28).
If our
time in reading the Bible has been flickering like my lights, it’s time to get
back to it. Let’s not be apathetic in our Christian walk and think that it’s
okay to expect the Lord to always just give us revelation, rather than us having
to actually sit down with the Bible and read His Word.
When I
started my study on “sleep” yesterday, I went to BibleGateway.com and printed
out the scripture references. Then when I began to look them up, certain
stories caught my interest and I had such a great time reading the context. By
doing this, the Lord was able to direct me and give me new insight on sections
of scripture that directly related to current events in my life as well as in
the world at large. It was awesome.
Jesus came in the flesh to
help people. His mission was, and still is, “to open their eyes, and to turn
them from darkness to light” (Acts 26:18).
Let’s let the Word of God,
and the revelation of Jesus Christ, open our eyes and let the light shine in.
Love, Carolyn
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