Light In The Darkness

At work today I was in a cooler moving around some product with my forklift, then all of the sudden the lights went out. I usually have my lights on when I am on the forklift but for some reason I didn't at this time. The lights only flashed off for a split second but for that split second I was in total darkness. I reached down and turn my forklift headlights on and there I was back into the light.
       At that time I had remembered what it was like to be sitting in darkness not know there was a way out. Till one day I had decided to give my heart, my life to the Lord and it was just like a light was turned on and all darkness was slowly disappearing as God's light starting shinning through. You know what it is like when it is lighten outside after dark, how the sky lights up and you can see for miles. Well picture that in slow motion and that is how it was when I let God's light shine into my darkness.
       Light not only reveals, and measures, but light energizes too.  It imparts life, it activates, it quicken

Phillip Brooks said
"When the sun rose this morning it found the world in darkness, torpid and heavy and asleep, with powers all wrapped up in sluggishness; with life that was hardly better or more alive than death.

"The sun found this great sleeping world and woke it. It bade it to be itself. It quickened every slow and sluggish faculty. It called to the dull streams and said, 'Be quick;' to the dull birds and bade them sing; to the dull fields and made them grow; to the dull men and bade them think and talk and work.

"It flashed electric invitations to the whole mass of sleeping power which really was the world and summoned it to action. It did not make the world. It did not start another set of processes unlike those which had been sluggishly moving in the darkness. It poured strength into the essential processes which belonged to the very nature of the earth. It glorified, intensified, fulfilled the earth. "

That happens every morning. That is what God does. God is light and God intensifies, fulfills, and glorifies our essential humanity. He does not destroy it. He takes it and leads it on through the darkness into an ever-growing experience of life and vitality and productivity. Many all over the earth have lost this vision, and for them life has become dead and dull and meaningless, filled with increasing despair.


The New Living Translation John 1:5---The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.

So this is the song I have been sing today

Light of the world
You stepped down into darkness.
Opened my eyes, let me see.
Beauty that made this heart adore You
Hope of a life spent with You

Here I am to worship,
Here I am to bow down,
Here I am to say that You're my God
You're altogether lovely
All together worthy,
All together wonderful to me

God has not promised there will always
be sunshine in our lives,
but He has promised that His light
will always be before us.

PS
Remember darkness conceals and Light reveals