Friday, October 29, 2021
Lord, how I love being Your “light-bearer.” Colossians chapter one tells our story. “You rescued us from the ‘kingdom of darkness’ and brought us into the ‘Kingdom of Light,’ the Kingdom of Your beloved Son Jesus.” You are a good and kind heavenly Father, who welcomes with open arms all prodigals who come to You. What do sinners have to lose? There is no scolding, no angry scowl, no “I told you so” lectures, just Your warm embrace holding us close to Your heart, so close our heart begins to beat with Yours, and I hear Your comforting words. “I have missed you. I’m so happy you are home. This is where you belong.”
For too long I thought I had to clean myself up, change my ways, turn over a new leaf. The harder I tried to be good, the more I realized I never could be good enough to be “one of Yours.”
What freedom to know You are not looking for perfect people. You are looking for broken people, of which I was highly qualified. Now that I’m reconciled back to You, Lord, I carry the light of Your Love everywhere I go, especially to those in the darkness. I pray to be live up to the old Jewish tradition that Yael Eckstein recalls. One of the questions we will be asked after we pass to the next world is “Did you turn darkness into light?” May my light shine in the darkness for You, Jesus. Amen,
THANKFUL 
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