The Lord is my Light

The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?

Can we just take this out of the Bible for a second? No... I don't mean like literally remove it, I mean can we just throw down all of our past disappointments with reading and not receiving, with trying & not getting anywhere... I want to read this, for what it is, not for what I've always thought of it to be. I have this problem, well... I speak in faith that I've had this problem of reading the Bible and NOTHING happening. I mean lets be honest, we've all been there. It sucks. It's annoying. And it's a curse that I believe has been placed on generations, and needs to be broken. We try to read the Bible and automatically something shuts off either in our minds or hearts and it's just hard to get anywhere. I've dealt with it for as long as I can remember. Well, I've come into a new season where I actually desire to read the Word. Haha, it seems silly when I actually say it, but it's the Truth. So now... Let's pretend you've never heard the Word, you've never struggled with doubt or disbelief. Lets put ourselves as children, before Truth, soaking it up, with no room for anything else but what we are told. This is fact...
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?

Jesus says that He is my light. When there is light, there is no darkness. Darkness does not have room where there is light. It is impossible for things to be hidden where there is light. So if I am in a room with light and I am not afraid of the hidden things because there are no hidden things, because I can see clearly everything that may have been hidden before... How much more the light of Christ who is inside of me, who is inside of you. I will not be afraid because Christ, my Lord resides in ME. And He IS light. He is THE light. So wherever I go, that light goes. And where that light goes, darkness cannot. Fear is darkness. Sin is darkness. I am the light of the world [Matthew 5:14] because Christ is inside of me. So with this in mind, fear & sin and whatever else that is not of Jesus cannot have any authority in my life because I have been set free from sin. And I know that who the son sets free, is free indeed [John 8:36]. I abound in full freedom. The Lord doesn't set us half way free, He sets us FULLY free. There are different levels of that freedom, but He doesn't just start something and walk off. Whoever He sets free, is truly free.
So... now that we have the revelation that Christ is Light, and we are the light of the world... We choose. We choose to walk it out. It is my choice to daily believe the truth and to not only agree with it, but to also choose it above anything else - regardless of circumstance or situation. I walk in the light because the light lives inside of me.

I want to encourage you today, this next week, this next month... Choose the Light. Choose light above every other choice. In you choosing light, you are choosing Christ. In you choosing Christ, you are choosing Light. And there is such freedom awaiting you in this!