Thoughts for another day

Aug. 2, 2013.

Today's verse: Job 29:3. when his lamp shone over my head, and by his light I walked through darkness; (RSV – copy ack.)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

In the darkness of the world there’re good chances that I’ll be swamped for the foolishness inside of me, isn’t too different than that in my first father, Adam.  There’re times, the darkness, without even my knowledge, goes around and envelopes me tight in its grip.  It’s only when it's too late I think of it and I realise the mess I’m in.  To tell you the truth, it’s me who’s responsible, for had I not fallen for the enticement of the deceiver, that despite the alerts He, the Man on the Cross gave me, then I wouldn’t have been in the situation I was.  But there’re times when the enticement is so beautiful, like in a sale where junk fit for the bin, is hyped as celestial adornment and lapped up by gullible people, so too in the cacophony the enticement evokes, one succumbs and gets lured only to discover the perpetual gloom it soon causes.

You may perhaps, not understand the kind of shadows I’m talking about, but ask, a drug addict or an alcoholic or those that work flesh deals and they that have HIV/AIDS by being involved in illicit things and they’ll tell you how dark their life has become because of what they willingly got into by the deceiver’s enticement.  They too are as strong-willed as us and as up to the mark as we are, yet in that moment of indiscretion when they let caution fly in the winds, they fell into the dark ghetto of oblivion, living on the dregs of life.  How can they ever be saved? How can they come into the realm of Him who has created them too; how can they ever be back into the life of a proper human being? 

The clue is found in our Scripture today…at the outer edge of the darkness I grope in, shines a lamp - the lamp of our Savior God.  When He was on the Cross, He saw my distress, for I, because of indiscretion had preferred darkness.  He saw me struggling in the junkyard of existence and He shone His light for me to see, for He was seeking a-one as one seeks a lost sheep and His light reaches me and I’m able to get up, despite the dimness my eyes have got accustomed to, and I walk in His light through the darkness and eventually toward the bright light of His countenance and into His arms to be washed clean by His blood; and now look, how clean I am: Set free and sparkling like a choice jewel in the Kingdom of my Lord and my God.