In The Darkness

My mom has a tendency to walk around the house in the dark, she has no fear of darkness. She will color at the table with no lights on and enters her room at night, never bothering to flip the switch. For some reason she has an adversity to turning on lights. My major concern is when she walks up and down the steps

in total darkness.

My husband and I have had frequent calamities at night while maneuvering our way to the bathroom in cave like blackness. He has has frequently stubbed his toes, and I have collided into doors, neither site is very appealing or pleasant.

Darkness is the absence of light. It can be dangerous and frightening at times and can cause someone to get lost, get hurt, stumble and/or fall. Pitch blackness prevents us from visualizing what exists in our immediate presence.

Crimes like burglary or vandalism, may occur more frequently at night due to the cover of darkness. "Suicide prevalence is 3 to 6 times greater during the night than any other time of day;” states Michael Perlis, possible causes could be insomnia, nightmares, depression, and the lack of positive social encounters at the time.

There are so many people in the world who are lost and wandering in the dark. They cannot see because they are spiritually blinded. They search for happiness, truth, and light in all the wrong places. They have the appearance of being joyful but their minds and hearts long for a glimmer of hope and contentment to obliterate

their personal emptiness and despair.

The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are

spiritually discerned. 1Cor. 2:14

The Bible gives us specific direction and wisdom on dealing with darkness.

He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him. 1 John 2:10-11

Love is a characteristic of light, and hate is a characteristic of darkness.

Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. “ I have

come into this world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.” John 8:12-13

Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light for my path. Psalm 119:105

Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Eph.5:8

I remember when I was in the dark, spiritually. I felt lost, abandoned, depleted and alone. I knew there was more to life than what I could see and feel. Amazing grace was a song I loved to sing, when I was straight or when I was drunk or high, because it brought me peace to know that I was lost now but I could be found. I was blind but I would be given sight to see. I knew of God from my childhood but I didn’t really know God, till I began my search for Him. When I accepted Jesus as my Savior, I learned that God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. As I began my fellowship with Christ, I started walking in the light and I developed fellowship with other believers. My life was transformed and and my mind renewed by the Word of God. I was found; wandering aimlessly no more, and my eyes were opened; no more darkness or blindness for me, I now could see. I knew I had a purpose and I knew that I was totally and completely loved. There was no darkness that God’s light would not, nor could not, pierce through to rescue me.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am a light and the dark is afraid of me. Eph. 5:8