Morning Light
Even the darkness is
not dark to You.
The night shines like
the day; darkness and light are alike to You.
Ps 139:12
I pull out of my driveway and notice the moon still high
above the earth. As I merge onto the highway I notice the sky begin to turn
pink and orange as the Sun ascends. It struck me the other morning as I watched,
the moon disappear, that morning darkness, is different from night darkness.
Have you ever been outside as the sun beings to descend and notice how dark it is?
The darkness surrounds you thick and your eyesight becomes foggy as you try to
see in front of you. With the morning, though it is dark, the darkness doesn’t
seem to have that same fog?
As a child, I feared the night. I would lay in bed and
listen to every noise, I had to know exactly what each sound was. I remember I
had this clock that would, tick tock, and I knew down to the second when I
would hear it. Sometimes a new sound would enter the darkness and I would lay
in bed afraid. I would stare into the darkness trying to figure out what the
noise was. I was too afraid to get out of bed and turn on the light, so some
nights I would lay until shear exhaustion would finally take over and I would wake
to my alarm in the morning. As a young child, I would lay in bed and cry out
for my mother, until she would come and take my sister to her bed to sleep
beside my dad and then she would crawl in bed with me. As a young girl, I had
nightmares that would wake me, but as a teen-ager, it was the darkness that
caused me fear.
When I moved out on my own, I learned to sleep in a house
with just myself and my son. The darkness didn’t bother me as much, but those
nightmares followed me. Then, I gave my life to Christ and the Holy Spirit in
me, gave the enemy a run for his money. I can remember one nightmare I was
having was so disturbing that I woke myself up, shouting scripture! Praise God!
The scripture I had learned as a child was flowing from my mouth. I sat up and
shouted the words….
“For the Lord has given his Angels charge over me and they
will keep me in all my ways, and in my path there is life and there is no
death!” Over and over again I said it, until I was calm and dark, was no longer
as dark as it had once been.
It stuck me that it is like that for those lost. When
darkness comes it surrounds them with no hope, only pain and despair. For
followers of Christ, we know that darkness cannot overcome the light.
That light shines in
the darkness,
yet the darkness did
not overcome it.
John 1:5
Rarely, I still have nightmares. Now that I am married, I
normally snuggle up to my husband and I still say scripture over and over
again, until the enemy flees and my mind is clear of the nightmare that woke
me. When we have a relationship with the Father, we don’t have to worry about
the darkness. Like John says, the darkness did not overcome the Light. You see,
where there is light, there is no darkness. Darkness by definitions is void of
light. That is what happens to nonbelievers.
Lord, You light my
lamp; my God illuminates my darkness.
Ps 18:28
Being a follower of Christ does not mean that we will not
have dark days, but it does mean that the darkness cannot overcome the light in
our lives. . Let me say that again, the darkness in our lives, cannot overcome
the light in our lives. We are never void of light, praise God, we always have
the light, guiding us through.
Our Father who is in
Heaven, Holy is your name. Lord, I come to you with thanksgiving in my heart
for the light in my life. The light that shines when the darkness begins to
fall and the enemy starts to take my down a road of fear. I praise you for
scripture held dear to my heart that causes the enemy to flee as even in sleep I
know to call out to you for protection with your living, breathing word. Lift
up those reading this that have fear in their hearts and show them the Light.
If any does not know you as their personal Savior, then Lord I pray they desire
a relationship with you and give themselves to you. Amen.
