Daily Verse: 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.
 

On a particularly dark, moonless night, I attempted to navigate from the bedroom to the kitchen to solve a thirst that had interrupted my sleep. So as to not wake the wife our children, I attempted to navigate the familiar course without lights. Poor decision making. In my “confidence”, I walked directly into a door frame, receiving an alarming pain across my face. I thought that I had the course down, even in the pitch dark night…yet I still failed and had a bruise to show for it. In our lives each day, we attempt to walk without the Light (Jesus), navigating on our own, convinced that we know the course and we know what is best. Then we hit a doorframe and wonder what happened…how did we fail?...how did we get off course? When we attempt to walk without Christ in our lives, we are walking in darkness…and the darkness can get a strangling grip on our lives. It’s cunning, deceiving, and often times very painful. It cause us to act in ways we later regret, speak words we wish we could take back, and harbor thoughts that only serve as poison. Sure, we may skate along for a while fairly unscathed, but eventually we are going to stumble and fall…and it’s often at those points that we look up and actually notice how far we have moved from the Light. Thankfully our Lord stands in waiting for when we come crawling back…when we ask that he light our path, removing the darkness that kept things so confusing, uncertain, and painful. So today, whether our path is smooth or riddled with doorframes, may we take an inventory our lives and look for the Light, embracing the opportunity to move closer to it with every new step. To God be the glory!