A couple of Wednesdays ago I woke up thinking about light piercing the darkness. There are different kinds of darkness, spiritual, emotional and actual lack of light in a place. I have experienced all three, and I must say that spiritual and emotional are the most scary for me... I had post postpartum depression after my first child was born one day I seriously considered driving off a cliff, but thank God I had my new beautiful baby in the back seat, because God used her to clear my thoughts, emotional darkness is real! I have had to be delivered of that emotional darkness because it had overtaken me and I could not escape it except with deliverance! Spiritual darkness is hard because you just aren't hearing from God, or you don't know who He really is...very disturbing! The sad thing is with spiritual darkness is we allow it to come into our life's by compromise..we must consider things wisely before compromising our beliefs. I feel like this is the very reason we pass so many dark, sad people daily is because of emotional and spiritual darkness. As for actual darkness I'm not scared of it, but I remember a time as a 14 year old, I was not yet in church and I was walking home very late at night, when I started thinking of scenes from those scary movies I was wishing I had never watched! I remember asking God to help me feel safe and as soon as I finished that prayer my eye was drawn to a light on the other side of the street, and there walking the same steps as me on the opposite side of the street was a beaver, yes a wood chewing beaver! (Honestly, this is true!) To this day I'm not sure how, but having that animal walk along with me made me feel safe...he was there with me all the way home. I have often wondered about that and questioned God about it, and I truly believe that God put that beaver there, I mean I asked Him to make me feel safe, if I had looked over and saw a glowing man, I definatly would have been more scared, but a glowing beaver, who's afraid of that? That was the beginning of His light piercing the darkness of my life! The thought that came to me that Wednesday a couple of weeks ago was I saw a very dark room then suddenly I saw a dim light come in and the darkness was pierced by just that dim light! My mind began seeing the room get brighter and brighter when finally the darkness was gone! When are life's are dark with sin God pierces the darkness and as we clean out our hearts through the Holy ghost our life's get brighter and brighter! The key for us is we need to let more of that light come in so we can be completely consumed by the light of Jesus! The other night I was checking on my kids and I was standing in the hall in darkness when I noticed something, we have a night light that changes colors between red and green, the red looks dark and the green will brighten the room back up, God said that is how I work, even when you look around and see only darkness my light will always pierce it, no matter how dark our days may get God's light will always break through, the darkness of a room is gone that suddenly, when we turn on a light because the darkness has to surrender to the light, the devil and his tactics and the world's affects cannot stand in the presence of “THE LIGHT” they must surrender their hold, so my dear brother or sister just stand strong and know that all you have to do is make sure that light is “turned on” in you, because in His time the darkness will be gone and you days will be lit again!!! I love y'all....