Covered Up


                                       
As I think about my life and this world we live in I am always confronted with this feeling of discomfort and sadness with the way so many see life. I know that Jesus is the way, the Truth, and the Light. I would be lost without him in this world.....actually, I have been. When I look around at what’s on TV or the radio, the people I work with and the way they live their lives (or not) it leaves me with a question. Why?

Being a Christian and knowing that feeling of peace and trust that comes with a relationship with Jesus Christ I wonder if some of the people I associate with will ever get it. But the fact is so many of us live our lives Covered up in the darkness of this world. It is so easy to hide in TV shows and dream of the lives we wish we had or the material things we are going to buy when we get the money or win the lottery.

I lived my life covered in darkness for 15 years starting when I was 13. I used drugs and friends as a way of making me happy when all I needed was a relationship with the Lord Jesus. In John 1:3-5 it says; Through him all things were made, without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, the darkness has not understood it.

The light shines in the darkness. I know today that he was shining in my darkness. That’s why I am here today. The darkness has not understood it, living in the darkness left me not understanding the way life is really meant to be lived. I was not living I was just going through the everyday routine and motions of survival. Just those words (uncertainty of tomorrow) scare me now. Could you imagine not knowing God and what would happen if you left here? Like that?

Today I let the light shine through me, though being a man; I have dark days and trials as we all do. So what keeps you covered up in this world? Is it the relationship of a loved one that is missing a foundation in Christ? Is it the lust for another person that you think will make you happy? Is it the love of money and material possessions that will make people think you are important and want to be your friend? Or maybe you are using your body to get the affection you never had.

I have been all of those things and have never had a feeling of peace in my soul with any of that as I do knowing Jesus and having a relationship with him today. Ephesians 5:8 says; For you were once darkness, but now your are light in the Lord. Live as children of the light and find out what pleases the lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible for it is the light that makes everything visible.

If you are searching for something look to Jesus and he will answer your call. He is waiting with open arms to be the Light of your Life. He says, I am the way the truth and the Light no one comes to the father but through me.

God Bless

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