My Guiding Light

 

My Guiding Light

John 8:12

12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

 

The purpose for the light is to guide us into the will and love of God. There is freedom when we can see the light and walk in the truth. Our souls are moving closer to the plans that God has predestined. We are learning how to discern when to move by the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit is giving us the wisdom to follow in the footsteps of Christ on our path and guiding us in the way that we should walk.

The Word of the Lord is illuminating the path as we obey God. As we keep going toward the light it seems to get bigger and brighter. Jesus is the light of the world. When our eyes become open to the truth in the scriptures, we will circumspectly be mindful of our behavior and attitudes and be conscientious in pleasing the Lord. We will put on righteousness as we live for Christ.  His life is the example of why we love, forgive, show kindness, have mercy for others and pray for one another. 

The Word of the Lord gives us the truth in how we should be living our lives. The Word is clear about the things that we should stay away from that will dim our light. We are no longer part takers of the works of darkness when we confess the Lord Jesus as the Son of God, and He was raised from the dead. He is risen. Our belief in Him puts us in Christ whereby faith we stand in righteousness and justification before God, the Father.

Our will is no longer dominating us because we have now come under God’s will. He is our creator and Lord that we submit our will and lives to. God’s will for us is the work of the cross that His Son, Jesus finished for us by dying for our sins to offer us salvation through grace by faith. Jesus’ blood was the chosen sacrifice that pleased God. His blood made the atonement for our sins. That was God’s divine providence to reveal to mankind that He was pleased with His Son the perfect spotless Lamb of God was slain to forgive us for the penalty of our sins. Our sins separated us from God because He is holy.

During the separation man fell deep into darkness where there is nothing but evil, burning desires of evil, thoughts of more evil and wickedness grew into the minds and hearts of men. They were lost and blind and sin was their master. They practiced sin day and night as their bodies burn for more passion and corruption was everywhere man tread. This was the trajectory from the time Adam and Eve fell in the garden of Eden until the days of Noah. That’s when God revealed to Noah to build an ark because He was going to flood the earth due to the evil and sin that man loved. The people’s hearts had all grown dark, but Noah and his family were found righteous. 

Satan is the devil. He is the evil one who tempted Eve and Adam in the garden of Eden. He and the fallen angels taught men how to be sinful, wicked, evil, selfish, and rotten to the core. There is nothing good in Satan and the evil spirits that serve him. This is their mission to temp man throughout every generation to fall into sin and become enslaved to sin because this is what displeases God and causes us to be further separated from knowing Him.

This is the works of the kingdom of darkness where Satan lives and his legion of demons. Their work is to destroy and corrupt every soul that is born to promote the works of darkness and build their army of legions. Eternal damnation, pain and suffering is the reward for those who obey Satan.

How do we know that we are sinful and separated from God when all we know is the darkness? When Adam disobeyed God in the garden of Eden, he ate the fruit from the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of good and evil, God cursed the serpent, Adam and Eve died spiritually from knowing God as they did before. Every human being has inherited Adam’s sin nature and are born in iniquity thereby spiritually separated from God. 

Jesus is the light of the world and life. He reveals to man the light where there is love, peace, newness, freedom, and life. These things are not seen in the darkness. This darkness resides in sinful men who do not come to Jesus. When the Holy Spirit makes His presence known to us our spirit man becomes awaken to the Spirit of God. It’s like walking in a dark house at night no one can clearly see their way where they’re going but our senses and feet maybe familiar with our surroundings, but when we find the light and turn it on everything is seen more clearly and we can see which way to walk without hurting ourselves or stumbling. 

God’s Word tells us to come to Jesus all who are weary and tired from their labors. He is our Messiah the anointed One sent by the Father to save us from eternal damnation. He wants us to come and confess our sins and believe in Him for He is the light of men. He is the door for us to walk into the light of our salvation. John 1:4-5 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Romans 6:8-14 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

The gospel of the good news is being herald globally in all seven continents and reaching places that are not yet made known to men. The Holy Bible holds the history of the beginning of time when God revealed Himself through His Word and works. Genesis 1:1-5 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

There is no one that will have an excuse that will be accepted on the day of judgement who do not repent and accept Christ as their Lord and Savior. There is no salvation in any other name but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The One who God sent His Son to die for the sins of the world and raised Him from the dead. The power, authority and dominion are His and He’s the light and life. We must follow the Holy Spirit and walk in the Spirit for our fruit will be seen as well as our salt and light will bring God the glory.

 

Dark World

 

As my soul wanders the earth I will pray

I am stricken with disbelief by the wickedness

There’s hidden traps, battles, and attacks

My thoughts are searching to find righteousness

The true meaning of life lies within

As I face each obstacle I will not quit

I am learning to read God’s Word

There are spiritual mysteries around me

As He leads my soul to the paths of righteousness

There is everlasting life that remains

It’s in His Word that we walk by faith

I’m pressing on towards the light

When darkness falls near me

I will call upon my Savior

For I am no longer bound by Satan

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