In the dark

It's National Flashlight Day! It is a good day to make sure that all your emergency lights have good batteries and are in good working order. There is nothing like needing a flashlight and having fifteen, and all with dead batteries. So, check those flashlights so that they will be ready when needed.

Why is today National Flashlight Day? Good question. Today is also Winter Solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. It makes sense, with all that darkness, that we ensure that we have light if needed. Lots of folks are scared of the dark, not because there IS something out there, but because they can't SEE IF anything is out there. It's a great representation of where we were without JESUS - in the dark.

Today's word is a very familiar passage from Luke 2:9 & 10, KJV, which reads, "And, lo, the angel of the LORD came upon them, and the glory of the LORD shone round about them, and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people."

The shepherds were out in the dark, the very dark, and were quite startled at this marvelous light that appeared. I am sure I would have been too. But, the light was shining the glory of the LORD all around them. The light was there to prepare them to receive the greatest news mankind had ever heard - we no longer have to be bound in the darkness of our sins, GOD had made a way. 

Are you walking around in the dark? Are you trying to keep all your transgressions hidden from the world? Are you afraid of the light that reveals all sin? There's no need to be; the light comes to bring good tidings of great joy! Salvation is available to all people! Come to JESUS and you will no longer be walking in the dark.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T