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Will you choose the Light?

Every year I look forward to gardening season. For me, the long winter months are shortened as seed catalogs begin arriving in January. And by February, I’ve started seeds indoors, hoping to have plants ready to go into the garden by late March. I place small pots in my windowsill, and soon, little green sprouts are pushing through the soil. Even with my carefully placed light bulbs, there never seems to be enough light, as those sprouts lean toward the source, trying to gain their first set of leaves. Plants were created to need light. Lots of light. We were created with the same need.

Without that light, we are left to wander through life without direction. Often looking for comfort or satisfaction for our current circumstances, we use others as our measure of comparison. Whatever our neighbors or friends are experiencing, we compare and decide we aren’t doing so poorly, or that maybe we need to step up our game a bit. But people are never our standard. The truth of God’s word is our light. It will shine in the dark places of our heart, encouraging us to grow and lean in the right direction, if we will access it.

Without that light, we will live in darkness. Darkness covers and hides. Darkness is where our enemy lives and speaks his lies. Darkness is a place of sin, bondage and death.

Light is a place of love, and life. Light is where we flourish and grow, allowing our sin to be uncovered and exposed to the truths of God. Light gives us direction and illumines the path of our purpose. Light and darkness cannot dwell together, for light casts out the darkness.

Will you choose the light of freedom over the bondage of darkness? It’s your choice.

Choose to live in the light, or you will stumble in the darkness.