Second Samuel 22 verse 29 says ' You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light. I read the other day that gratitude trains the eyes to adjust to the dark. I believe this means God’s word lights the path, but sometimes only enough to put one foot in front of the other. We can’t see the big picture of what is going on around us. We can only see what God has chosen to reveal to us.
Sometimes clinging to faith is lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness. Faith is like light... darkness cannot exist where there is light and doubt cannot exist where there is faith. In this marathon of life we need the endurance that faith brings.
November for us has been a month of illnesses. Infections both viral and bacterial have hit hard. We started out celebrating Mike having two psa's of zero ended with them finding another 4cm by 4cm mass.
(We go Tuesday to have that checked out)
I could (and I would be lying if I didn't say I have not been tempted) to give into despair, crawl into my bed pull the covers over my head and stay there. To say it's not fair!
I took Rachel back to school today. I had the privilege of having Lucas (my 10 year old) as my copilot. He literally talked non stop for 2 hours on the way home... but I was blessed to hear his thoughts on quite a number of topics. :)
One of the many things he shared with me was how life seems harder when your Christian. Because the world isn't the way God created it to be and so we just don't fit. In his 10 year old way he was speaking deep truth. Bad things happen because this world is a fallen one. Things don't make sense and 'we don't fit'. But we are not without hope...
2 Corinthians 4:9 says ' we are persecuted, yet not abandoned; knocked down, yet not destroyed.' And I am lighting that candle and clinging to it's truth.
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