Seeing The Light In Darkness

Happy New Month!!

For a long time, I’ve been hiding my emotions from the people around me and from myself. I mean, I’d tell my friends the surface-level issues, but I never spoke about the real things that kept me up at night and I won’t speak about it now either. But what I will say is that you can hide from your friends and your family but you can never hide from God. When I began to share how I really felt with God, I realized that I had many unresolved issues deep within me that I had suppressed all in the name of being strong. And as a result, I never healed right and that has become very evident in my life today. But guess what? There is always security in knowing that when you fall, he will catch you. When people say that, they normally say it in the context of sinning, which is true and very important to realize, but I want to use it in the context of my heart and the state of my soul.

When I started this blog site I was in a dark place I was hurting and broken inside, but trusting God for healing and actually experiencing the healing. But at the same time witnessing people experiencing the same exact situations as me but beating themselves up worse than I was. I started this blog site because I knew I was not alone and I wanted to make sure others knew that too. I was in a fragile and unfamiliar place and all I knew what to do was run to God. And he showed me the light. This sounds cliche but this is who God is, he is the light in the midst of darkness so don’t expect any less. He shed light on my path, gave me new perspectives, lifted me from the midst of darkness, and brought me into the light, he crowned me with jewels, healed my scars, and gave me feet so I could walk again. And that’s what I’m doing, I’m walking again and you can do the same.

I am at a point in my life where I have no choice but to be real about my emotions to everyone around me, myself, and with God, because I have realized that there is no way forward but through this. And all I want to tell you today is to do the same. This world is broken, dark, and wicked but at the end of the tunnel and that light is God. The sad truth, however, is that many of us see the light and think that it’s too far or too dim and choose to stay in the darkness.

We often run away from God because we think, if he is really God, why would he let XYZ happen to me. But as I said, this world is broken, it’s wicked and empty and that’s exactly why we should run to God and not away from him. You might ask, but God created all things so why can’t he just fix it? And my answer to that is, he already has. He sent his Son Jesus to die for your sins on the cross so you could have access to the world that is to come where there will be no tears nor sorrows. That being said, Jesus also died so you can have access to that world while you live in this one. Jesus died so that you can experience life here on Earth as it is in Heaven. But, God never promised that you will not have troubles, he only promised that he will walk with you through the troubles so that when you are in the valley of the shadow of death (earth quite frankly lol), you will not fear. And this is what makes us different from the non-believer. It is not that we will not go through struggles and that life will be bliss but that when we go through it, we will go through it with assurance and security in the fact that a world without hardship, without pains, without sorrows, without poverty, without heartache, etc., awaits us.

All I want to say today is that there is a world on the other side that awaits us and we can’t forfeit our reward ( Heaven) because of our shortsightedness. This world is hard, it’s tough, so hold on to Jesus like he is your Oxygen, don’t run away from the light, run towards the light, and watch as it becomes brighter and brighter in your eyes. Don’t limit yourself to your past, do not define yourself by your situation, do not live off of your emotions but hold on so to the one who is and is to come.

I love you guys.