Darkness

have you ever been hungry was the question yesterday. Today I want to know have you ever been in darkness. Truly covered up in complete darkness. I can only think of a few times that I have. One was in Georgia on Tara's family's farm. It was a cloudy night with the moon completely covered and there were no lights on in the back when I was out there with Tara's cousins(they were shining deer, go figure). Anyway there was absolutely no light to be found. In our neighborhood (where normal Florida people live) there is no way to find complete darkness. Street lights, house lights and so on, there is always some form or source of light in the area. But, in Georgia it was different.
I have heard stories of people in caverns, caves and deep sea diving excursions in pitch black dark, but they always have a light iwth them. IMagine complete darkness though. In the fellowship hall at ACBC there is a way to close all of the doors and play midnight football. You get a glow in the dark football, give it to one of the teams and they crawl on the floor playing two hand touch trying to get the person with the ball. It's fun and crazy, but still most of those kids can somehow see what is going on around them.
John 8:12 says, When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
Speaking in terms of spiritual things, if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ there will always be light. If you don't, there will be darkness that can only be partially illumined by the light of others. That light leaves whent he other believers leave however. How sad to think of going through life in complete darkness.
That is why I always say that there is not truly, completely bad people. THere are only people with an absence of good. Like the light of Christ, there are those who have it and those who need it. Those are the only two types of people on the earth today. It is my hope that we as believers show the light in a way that it exposes those who are missing it and makes them want it. It's our job as Christians to make our greatest possession that personal relationship with Christ, contagious.
So let your light shine today, no matter what and eventually others will see it for what it really is, and want it.
Thanks for reading and have a great day!