His Light/Our Light

Friday, April 25, 2025

Good morning, Lord

Father in Heaven, I seek You first-the knowledge of Your limitless love in Christ and endless power. Build my trust and my passion. I take up my cross and follow...In Jesus' name…

Memory verse: Ephesians 2:6 “And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”

Verse of the day: Colossians 1:27-28

27 “To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. 28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.”

Daily Reading: 2 Samuel 21-22 Luke 18:24-43

His Light/Our Light

(The Lord emphasized the importance of reading scripture this morning as I was rushing to get my daily reading recorded. He does that to say, “Slow down and see and hear”, I think. The passage we look at today ‘jumped off the page’ and so I stopped and heard what God says to me.)

2 Samuel 22: 29 “Lord, you give light to my lamp.    The Lord brightens the darkness around me.”

Psalm 119:105 says, “Thy word is a light for my feet and a light for my path”.

The word is not just a light to my feet and path, He is the light inside my lamp. The Bible says that non-believers cannot comprehend it

Isaiah 44:18 says, “They do not know, nor do they understand, for God has muddied their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts (minds) as well so that they cannot understand.”Psalm 27:1 says, “The Lord is my light…”

Everything about the Lord is light. The only light we have is because of the Lord God. The only way we understand God’s plan or understand His word or hear His voice is because He puts light in our lamp-He is the light-our vision-our entire vision.

I believe we must hear Jesus ask us like he asked the blind man in Luke 18:41, “What do you want Me to do for you?” And we must ask “Lord, let me see again.”

We must not just expect to see. Like Peter as he walked on the water toward Jesus and the storm raged around Him. His attention-His consciousness of Jesus waned and he started to sink and he cried out to Christ, “Lord save me!”

We have to realize the enemy’s storm all around us and cry out to Christ, “Lord save me, lift me, let me see!”.

We cannot assume that we can handle anything or see in this darkness on our own power. We must be dependent on The Holy Spirit-all the time-especially in the good times. A drowning man will always cry for help. A successful and progressing person-not so much.

Our egos can blind us-self sufficiency can blot our need for God.

Ask God to keep the light on…

...because He loves us...He will do it…

Father in Heaven,

Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done in my heart. Forgive me my reluctance to see Your truth.

Lead me away from sinking in my ego.

Father of all light,

In the name of Christ Jesus