January 21, 2012

“The Father’s Son”

Scripture:

Psalm 18:16, 28
He reached down from Heaven and rescued me;
He drew me out of deep waters.
LORD, you have brought light to my life;
My God, You light up my darkness. (NLT)

Observation:

Not so long ago the LORD our God saw my life drowning in a dark sea of self-pity and self-hatred; despising this cursed life and longing for an end. I was sinking deeper into the darkness that sin brings to every lost and isolated life—a life that had slowly and emphatically weighed me down into the complacency of defeat and the utter regret of ever being born, especially the person I had become. I hated God, I hated myself, and I hated life—and unbeknownst to me, the exact place where the Enemy of God wanted my lost soul. There are no words in any human language that can fully explain the persistent, unrelenting torment that living in darkness brings to the person who finds their self lost in it. The best picture I can give you is one of feeling trapped in and tied up with hopelessness during a free fall into an unknown darkness that you know will end badly and realizing there is absolutely no one down there to save you from whatever horrors that are waiting below. Living a life of darkness is not how it was meant to be, for there is One who can rescue us, One Way to escape. There is Hope!

Application:

The One Person, who has the power to overcome the deepest darkness of the soul is the Christ, our Lord Jesus; the Light for this World and the Savior of its souls (John 16:33). It is God the Father who mercifully plucks us out of the realms of darkness. It is God the Son who graciously clothes us with His Light. And it is God the Holy Spirit who takes care of the rest. Being pulled out of the deep waters of darkness and into the Light of the Son and being empowered with the Source of all Life doesn’t make this difficult life-journey a "Walk in the Park". But what it does do though; is it gives us comfort in knowing the Truth—not manmade foolishness and random ideology; not hopeful guessing or intellectual philosophy, but God’s absolutes. Knowing God and the mystery behind creation is not difficult to understand if you belong to God. All others belong to this world and are oblivious to the Truth, and thus, they become followers of the untruth—the father of lies and the god of this world, the Devil (2 Corinthians 4:4). Don’t be fooled, my friends, Satan is both powerful and devious and as long as we live in this dark filled world, it will be a fight to the finish that ends good for all those who belong to God. So, be ever so grateful and forever so thankful when the Father of Hope shines His Son into your life, because without Him all is in vain and all remains lost. His Saving Light is in the Father’s Son.

Prayer:

I simply thank You, O God, for who You are and all that You have done. You are the God who truly gives life to the dead. My life is Yours.

Amen