Bright lights Part I

Today was a funny day.

I don't know if you've ever felt God personally tap you on the shoulder and grab for your heart but today was THAT kind of day...

Bright lights, fro-yo, chapels, Jesus...Okay I'll take you back to the beginning.

The day began as any other, waking up painfully early (in my opinion) to go to work at the camp I work at around 7:02 A.M. Rolling over and smacking the alarm which blared some annoying pop song by Britney Spears, I woke up and stumbled out of my dark room.  Yes this day appeared to be just like every other but that morning I felt different.  I felt like God had put something on my heart that I couldn't run from anymore.

I'm not going to lie.  I've been walking in the darkness for quite some time now.  My heart hasn't been resting in the place it should have been.  I was living in a dark place; selfish, insecure, bitter, and angry about how my life hadn't been panning out the way that I so deeply desired. 

  John 1:6-7 says, "If we have fellowship with him while we walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.  But if we walk in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin."

I don't know about you but I don't want to live in darkness.  I want to live my life in the light.  Believing in God means following Him, trusting Him and loving with everything you have.  Searching in the darkness isn't where you're going to find God. 

He is the light.  He is the lamp which stamps out the darkness running rampant in this world and leads us forward (Psalm 119:105).  He is the love that is going to guide us out of this tunnel we may find ourselves in.