HOW GREAT IS THAT LIGHT!

For 37 years I lived in darkness.  Yet I thought I could see just fine.  Then one day God called me and I was chosen.  The light of Christ opened my eyes and I began living in His light.  How wonderful is that light!  I hungered and thirsted for His righteousness.  I wanted to help others be delivered from darkness into His light.  That’s when I realized how much darkness hates Light.  I had an enemy! He came at me from every direction trying to put out the light of Christ in me.  Satan knows he can’t take the Light from me.  He is happy if he can trip me up and cause me to sin, so he can use me as an example to cause others to stumble.
I had cataract surgery about seven years ago.  After its removal, I was shocked at how bright everything looked.  I had no idea my vision was so affected, so dark.  It was nice to see the brightness again.  I was doing great, then last month the eye doctor said I had a cataract in my other eye, so I had cataract surgery again.  Wow!  I had no idea how dim my vision had become.  Sometimes Satan and his demons are like cataracts, they slowly dim the light until you trip and fall into a pit of darkness.
I am so thankful for surgeons that can remove cataracts, restoring the light to our eyes.  But I am so much more thankful for a loving, forgiving, praying body of Christ that can lift me out of that pit of darkness.  A people willing to wash my feet and clean my garments, restoring the true Light to my eyes.
“For while I was yet a sinner Christ died for me.”  He took my guilt and shame onto Himself and washed me in His blood.  Now, when I fall, he picks me up, blots out my sins, and they are remembered no more.
HOW GREAT IS THAT LIGHT!

Marshall Warren