Penetrating Life’s Darkness …

Hosea 14:9 ~ Who is wise? He will realize these things. Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them.?

Abba Father good morning ~ Have you ever been in the woods while the sun settled so gradually you were caught off guard? Can you remember the last time you stayed overnight in an unfamiliar surrounding? How did you feel during a recent power outage in your home? Have you ever found yourself lost in a city as darkness surrounded your life? Were you ever stranded in the middle of nowhere in the penetrating darkness throughout night? Have you ever been on a lake as darkness settled making you feel uneasy? Do you ever remember being disorientated in an environment of total darkness? What feelings were generated? Did fear, panic, worry, anxiety, desperation, hopelessness become real as you temporary were isolated from the comforting security of light? Let’s be realistic. Darkness can be downright intimidating. Did your imagination run wild? Take a moment. Reflect on past experiences. Were you ready? Were you prepared? Were you equipped? The living bible teaches about living boldly ready, courageously prepared, fearlessly equipped. Living ready for all the unexpected. Prepared for all the unknowns. Equipped for all uncertainties. Actively living among the ways of this world everyone will stumble in darkness. How far we fall is the question. Never forget ~ satan is extremely prepared to lure our life into darkness. Strategically, deviously, delusionally presenting ways of life appearing to be appealing, rewarding, satisfying. Having sole purpose of getting our inner-core of thriving life lost in delusional darkness of the ways of this world. Remember ~ satan is meticulous. Wanting nothing less than isolating our heart, our mind, our soul. Our very life. There will always be obstacles attempting to cause stumbling, tripping, falling throughout life. Moments where darkness becomes an entangling snare. Obstacles to living life within The Lord Our God’s powerful life-changing undeserved grace. Snares of satan’s ungodliness strategically embedded within instant gratifications, materialism, pornography, gambling, drugs, alcohol, technology. Any addiction consuming our time, our energy, our resources. Hazards getting in the way of family, friends, encounters with all of life. It might be hard to see in the darkness of night as we encounter the middle of the woods, power outages at home, unexpected environments, unfamiliar surroundings overnight. What darkness is attempting you to trip, stumble, fall? What darkness is attempting to isolate you from Our Living God who loves all of life personally, unconditionally, intimately? Remember ~ We can live ready, we can live prepared, we can live equipped. We can have oil to burn, a match to strike, a promise to shine. Reading the living bible, holding it tightly, embracing it willingly. The Lord Our God will shine brightly into the darkness of all life’s brokenness. The oil we burn is the living bible. Match we strike is our faith. Light we shine into darkness is a life of living within God’s powerful cleansing, redeeming, restorational undeserved grace. Darkness can never extinguish a life of faith willingly believing, accepting, trusting, following within Our Living God, Our Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit. As we live through the darkness of this world. Our life will shine brightly an abundance of everlasting hope, comforting unconditional love, releasing compassionate forgiveness, everlasting life in heaven. The oil we burn, match we strike, light we shine are all un-earnable, un-purchasable, un-creatable gifts of undeserved grace. Free-gifts shinning everlasting life (Holy Spirit) into life’s brokenness (our sinfulness) within anointed sustainable life (Christ Jesus) from everlasting life in heaven (Abba Father) transforming real hearts, real minds, real soul. Penetrating satan’s dilutional darkness of snarling ungodliness as Godly faith shines renewing, refreshing, redeeming, restoring life’s brokenness. We have choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. We can live in the ways of this world tripping, stumbling, falling into satan’s darkness. Or live abundantly within the cleansing light of redeeming undeserved grace of life-changing restoration within Our Living God, Our Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit. Shining brightly into the snarling darkness of the ways of this world. Oil we burn. Match we strike. Life we live. Shines within our heart, our mind, our soul. What is our oil, our match, our life burning? Ways of this world or ways of God the Father ~ God the Son ~ God the Holy Spirit? Reflect with urgency if you must. ???????????

Father ~ Thank you for shining brightly into the darkness of my sinful life. Brightly shinning anointed blessings of undeserved grace cleansing, redeeming, restoring deeply within my inner-core of thriving life. Father ~ Help me burn the oil of love within my heart, strike the match of truth within my mind, shine the light of life-changing faith living within my soul. The power within heaven boldly, courageously, fearlessly shining cleansing, redeeming, restoration into the dark sinfulness of my life living abundantly within you Abba Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit.

Michael J Zenner