Psalms 119:105 Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
Have you ever felt like you were stumbling around in the darkness of life? I sure have. I was raised in a Christian home, albeit a very dysfunctional Christian home. My mother had mental issues that disrupted our family life. My dad did the best he could with what he had to work with. Working a job, dealing with mom and raising 4 children. It was not an easy life for any of us. I learned though by his example to love God. And yet, as I grew older, some of our past family life helped to plunge me into a lot more and a different kind of darkness. And it got so dark, that I felt suicide was the only way out of it. And I almost tried taking an overdose one day. As I contemplated it, holding a bottle of pills in my hand, my 3-year-old daughter bounced into my bedroom. Really I don't know where my head was that day. If I had really taken my life I would have left her alone. And yet, that was how dark my life had become. As I looked at her happy little face, the thought came into my mind about who would take care of her. My alcoholic husband? No, he could not have taken care of her. His family? No. They were not Christians and though I had myself gotten away from the Lord, I would want her to be with people that would teach her about God. My parents? No, that was some of my own dark past. Anyone else in my family? No. There was not anyone that I really trusted. God had given me my precious daughter and so through thick or thin, I had to be there for her. That darkness I had fallen into, went on for several years until the day came when I had had enough. And in my kitchen leaning against the wall, I slid to the floor and begged God for help. And that day marked the beginning of the end for the darkness I had been in. God did bring beauty to ashes even though it was not overnight. But as he guided me out of the darkness, he used his lamp, the bible to lighten the way. Are you in the dark today? God wants to lighten your way as well. Get out his word and start thinking on the good things above, not on the things below as in Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
And know that God does have a plan for your life. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
But to truly know his plan for you, he needs to lighten your path with his word. Do it today. Let him lighten your path. Believe me, if you do, you will never regret it!
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