I'm Not Dead Yet!...But I Used To Be...

I'm pretty sure you've all heard these verses, Christian or not, regardless of sect, but you know I love quoting the Bible whenever I can. But really, God never stops revealing things to you. Read it again, and listen, take it in. Think about your life and the life of others, people you love, people at sometimes you wish you didn't have to. Think about where you are, in the Light or the Dark:

John 3:16-21
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21But 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."

If you've decided that you are in the Light, God bless you all your days. That you stand strong and firm on the road to heaven, but also plant as many seeds of Jesus in the hearts of people who yearn for happiness, and as many as possible, because THIS is what makes God proud. God wants to look at you and say "This is my son, whom I love, look at all the wonderful things he does in the name of his father.". Be that son, be the light, not just for your soul, but for the entire world.

And, if you think your still in the Dark, it's okay. Your already one step closer, admitting to still living in the dark, out of true happiness and without true love. But as it said, he didn't send his son to condemn the world, but to save it. Coming out of the darkness isn't about cleansing your sins. It's about coming into the light with all of them, saying, "Father, this is my life in front of you," and it's about putting down all your sins on the table and saying "God, this is all I have and all I am. I know it's not much and I know it's all wicked things that don't like, but these are the sins I have, this is my situation, help me work with this, because I know that on my own, I can't accomplish anything. Take me sins, turn my rags into riches. I want to make you proud, Jesus, I want you to walk by me so that I can stay in the light.

Noone's holy under the light. We're still humans, and we still make mistakes. We still struggle, and sometimes we sway off into the dark. But being in the light is accepting that you need God in your life to keep you on course towards true happiness and joy. Just like the sun each day, the light is new, it holds new promises and blessings.

But the most important thing to stay in the light is this: Each day, fall in love with Jesus Christ again. In this way, you become stronger and more courageous, you become a new creation, and the past does not hold you back. Learn to love as he has, and he'll return it tenfold.

-God Bless You, Guys, whoever you readers are, and stay faithful.

(And please, gimme a little comment or two on what I've said and if it's had an impact on you, I'm a little more motivated to post when I know theres someone listening.) ;)

Verse a Day, you can always both work and play!

Job 29:2-4
2 "How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
3 when his lamp shone upon my head and by his light I walked through darkness!
4 Oh, for the days when I was in my prime, when God's intimate friendship blessed my house,"