The Special of the Day… From the Orange Moon Cafe…
“The Light of the Living”
From Eden onward, the great personal challenge of every human being has involved reality. “Am I walking it it?” The question becomes more and more pertinent in these days of information and imagery that may or may not originate in the substantively real. Moreover, many have little or no awareness of what reality actually is. Born again believers in the Lord Jesus Christ know. We nevertheless face constant temptation to live in the darkness or fog of unreality.
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment” (John 7:24).
“Teach me Thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth” (Psalm 86:11).
We must be prepared to overcome the temptations. This involves availing ourselves of the gifts God has given to enable life in the Light. The Holy Spirit, the Scriptures, fellow believers, faithful communicators of God’s truth, and the realization of our Lord’s presence and working along the pathways of providence in our lives illuminate our hearts to know the real well enough to consistently spot and reject unreality.
“For Thou wilt light my candle: the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness… Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness” (Psalm 18:28; Psalm 112:4).
Bank tellers well know this truth and principle. They learn to spot counterfeit bills not by focusing on bogus currency, but rather by counting so many of the real that the false becomes easy to detect and reject. Reality, known and understood, results in the rejection of unreality. In similar manner, believers must become so familiar with God’s truth that we increasingly recognize devilish, worldly, and fleshly deceptions difficult and even impossible to discern apart from the divine revelation of “Thy Word is truth” (John 17:17).
“Am I thinking rightly about this matter? This person? This circumstance or condition? The world? This moment?” We direct these questions to our Heavenly Father in ongoing discourse regarding reality. We require His confirmations and corrections in a life lived amid the darkness and the fog of unreality. No possibility exists of our walk in truth apart from the consistent entrance of His light into our hearts and minds. We must respond to reality through the gifts given by our Father, making possible our rejection of the unreality our enemies ever seek to foist upon us. He ever works to expose us to His light. May we open our eyes to see the real, that the unreal might become obvious.
“For Thou hast delivered my soul from death. Wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?”
(Psalm 56:13)
Weekly Memory Verse
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
(II Corinthians 9:8)
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