Fear In the Dark

Ok, I don't mean to over spiritualize everything, but man does God every use the simple things of this world to speak to my heart.  So, I have to share this really quick.  For some reason, the breaker has blown that affects the light to our upstairs bathroom.  My son tried to fix it, but for some reason, the thing just keeps flipping.  This afternoon, I got up to go in to begin cleaning the bathroom, and I mean, I don't know how many times I tried to keep turning that silly light on even though I knew it wasn't working properly.  I finally gave up and tried to remind myself to not try to turn the thing on again.  I grabbed my bathroom scrub and started squirting it on the sink and then the shower.  As I was getting ready to scrub the shower, I saw it.  The most hairy, leggy, looking nasty spider I had ever seen.  I didn't want to touch it, but I had to see if it was really a spider.  I stuck my finger on it and my heart skipped a beat as it jumped on me!  Aaaahhhh!  It was a spider!  And then I looked a little closer....and saw.....that it was just.....some hair.  Good grief!  What difference it would have made if the bathroom light was working and I would have been able to see right away that it was nothing but a harmless bit of hair stuck to the tub.

That is what happens to  us in the dark, though.  Even the most simple and harmless thing begins to look like danger to us.  We get scared, we fret, our pulse raises and so do our emotions.  We are on edge and jump at every sound.  What a difference it would make if we would just turn on the light of the truth of Jesus Christ......it would all fade away.  We would see that it was nothing but a harmless piece of whatever, or maybe there wasn't even anything there to begin with.  His light chases away every shadow and ushers in His peace which passes all understanding.

If you have something in your life right now that you are feeling fearful about, I encourage you to flip the switch and shed the light of God's truth on the subject.  I guarantee you that in His light, grace, strength, and victory your fear will flee; just like the shadows, as you rest in Him.  He has already conquered whatever it is that you are facing.  His perfect love will light your "room" and cast out all fear.