Devotional: Darkness

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

John 1:5 NIV

Have you ever been outside at night in the country, it had just rained, the ground is still wet and the sky is still thickly covered in clouds? Everything is dark. It seems that no light can escape the darkness. The darkness feels heavy and oppressive. You are straining to see anything in front of you as you walk. Then suddenly way off in the distance you see a single small light cutting through the night. You aren't able to tell how far away it is yet, but you can see it and you begin to walk toward it. It is a beacon in the darkness and no amount of darkness could every put it out. Even this far away your pupils are drinking in the light as small traces of it are bounced off the leaves and the grass. 

From bible.com

In life, we find times when we are left in a figuratively total darkness. We have no idea where to go, what might be ahead of us and everything inside is saying either stay where you are or go back to where you know there is safety. It comes natural to us when we can't see whats next. But God is like that light way off in the distance. He is cutting through the darkness and nothing the darkness can do will dim His light in anyway. But we have to learn to focus on that tiny bit of light and let it lead us into whatever comes next. Let this single light guide our steps and our choices. When we get to the end off all of this, we will be safely home in the light. Where no darkness can touch us again. 

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.