Women @ the Well, let us thank God for allowing us to make it to another Friday morning. Let each of us ask God for His discerning spirit of wisdom so that we can know right from wrong; and so that we can see the light from the darkness as we walk with Him today.
Yes, we are living in some dark times and many of us can find ourselves being led by people who are not able to nor or they willing to do what is right in the sight of God.
Proverbs 14:12 (NLT2) 12 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
No, we cannot hold hands with the devil while walking with God!!!
We as Christians, often associate darkness with the world and the devil. But if the truth is told, we often find ourselves experiencing dark times. The darkness that we often experience most of the time has nothing to do with sin or the devil but is usually an empty, lost, lonely, feeling of being abandoned by God. (Remember Job)?
And unfortunately, when we as God's people come face to face with dark times, we don't always recognize what it is and it in some ways almost always nearly takes us out.
It's during these times of darkness we often want to quit walking with God and return to our familiar not so good ways; instead of staying the course and remembering what it is that He has already done for us.
Isaiah 50:10-11 (NLT2)
10 Who among you fears the LORD and obeys his servant? If you are walking in darkness, without a ray of light, trust in the LORD and rely on your God.
11 But watch out, you who live in your own light and warm yourselves by your own fires. This is the reward you will receive from me: You will soon fall down in great torment.
1 John 1:7 (NIV)
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
John 3:19-21 (NIV)
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."
Lesson: We must keep walking with the Lord even when we don’t feel His presence. It is far better for us to walk on the path in darkness with faith while trusting and following God than to walk by our own light of self-sufficiency which always wears out.
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