My personal reflection

My personal reflection is usually in the form of a conversation with God and usually includes both sides of the conversation. I know it's weird but that's how the Lord speaks to me.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.

John 3:14-21
Lord, help me replace these thoughts with your thoughts
Jesus said to Nicodemus:  "Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.  Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.  And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil.  For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed.  But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God.

Whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God. 

Lord,
I lived in darkness for so long.  I did not want to but I did.  I do not understand how I got there, only that it became home for so long.  Lord, I do not understand how this thing got inside me and how it controlled me in a way that was really not under his control but steered me toward the evil with the constant hateful thoughts.  Lord, decades of that negativity affected every aspect of my life and I didn’t even know it.

Lord, I want to stay in the light, in your light.  I want to get used to  it and I want to be at home there.

You will.  It just takes time. 

Lord, what was that all about all these years?

It was darkness.  You experienced a darkness that is unseen.  You didn’t even see it because it was all you knew.  Those thoughts that kept you doubting, that kept you in turmoil are gone.  But you have to live with their effect until you can transform your thoughts which will transform your actions, which will transform your life.  It all takes time thought.  Give yourself time.

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