One night several years ago when we first moved into our house I woke up
to a tremendous storm.

Our great room is filled with floor to ceiling windows. As I walked out of the bedroom it was quite dark when…
lightning flashed seemingly right over the house. In the window- lined room, the light was immediate and overwhelming. I could see nothing. I was momentarily blinded.

Coming out of the dark, the light filled the enlarged pupils in my eyes and I had to stop walking and stand still.

My eyes adjusted after a moment….then the lightning flashed again,
just as bright. Without telling them my hands covered my eyes.

It was an electrical storm, low and right over our house. It continued for about 10 minutes.

When the lightning subsided I thought about that light. It was complete and absolute and overwhelmed all else in the house. And, it momentarily blinded me.

I thought of Saul on the road to Tarsus. I thought of the Light that might have come out of Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb on Easter morning.

JESUS comes into darkness and obliterates it the way the darkness was overwhelmed that night in my house.

Our pursuit of Christ is to have that same Light in our lives…to drive away darkness. To close the eyes of those to the darkness they are in and abide with them as their eyes and lives adjust to the Light which desires and draws them.

In John 14 the Word says if we keep His Word, He will manifest Himself to us….His Light will manifest His Life to us, In us and through us….
for those around us who He desires to draw out of darkness.

Allow It to illuminate all the rooms in your life.
It will blind, and then shine on all who need It.

Terry
December 14, 2014