Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Devotional Thoughts
By David Wilkerson
When you walk with the Lord you will be rewarded with light, direction, discernment, revelation—a certain knowing! As you die to this world day by day, the light will grow brighter. You are headed toward the sun. Zacharias prophesied that Christ came to give light to them that sit in darkness . . . to guide our feet (see Luke 1:79).
Are you under the spell of some kind of darkness or indecision? “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life” (John 8:12). “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness” (John 12:46). “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and [a]conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Colossians 1:13).
You may claim to love Jesus but your life proves you are still walking in darkness—confused, befuddled and foggy! When you are truly in love with Jesus, conversing with Him, He turns up the light. There is no darkness at all in His presence.
The worst possible darkness to mankind is not in the hearts of God-hating Communist leaders or Christ-hating atheists. It is, rather, the horrible darkness that blinds so-called Christians who refuse to walk in the light.
Jesus warned: “Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness.” (Luke 11:35). Jesus told the Pharisees that a judgment falls upon those who pervert or refuse the light: “’For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.’ Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, ‘Are we blind also?’ Jesus said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, “We see.” Therefore your sin remains’” (John 9:39-41).
Like the Pharisees, some Christians think they “'know it,” that they are in the light. They say, “I see.” Or, “I see it as well or better than the pastors or anyone else!” They should look at their life and home, at all the trouble and confusion in their hearts, and admit, “Lord, I don’t see! Show me! Am I blind?”
If we will not open up to true, pure light, then our judgment can only be a false light. Get back to walking with Him, and He will expose all darkness and restore to you His pure light.