Will you be the light?

The idea of God’s everlasting, ever loving light radiating out of us is so overwhelming beautiful that sometimes I am scared of this. For a brief moment I think of the end of Hocus Pocus when the Sanderson sisters are so saturated with light they explode, but that is what we are called to do; die to ourselves and this world. Random, I know but that is what I pictured this morning.

Another image that came to mind was from the speaker the first year of CPC. His message was on the searching we all have. He used a flashlight without a battery to illustrate this point. He filled the flashlight with worldly things: drugs, alcohol, lust, clothing, you name it that went into the flashlight but the light did not go on and we continue to search. He then took out a second flashlight and explained that Jesus was the perfect fit for that battery shaped hole in our heart; the Father was the only thing our soul keeps searching for. The speaker then put in the battery and turned on the flashlight making a bright light shine through the morning light.

We draw everything from the Love of God. We can do anything He is calling us to; simple because He is the headlights leading the way and guiding us to the place we are called to. Simple yes, but challenging to follow; we want to do our own thing and yet the Father is courting us the entire way. He is “romancing” us to His side. We are called to Him not only by His desire to be with us, but also our relentless searching to be by His side. We will not stop searching until we are filled with His encompassing, over powering light. When we are filled with that light that is when everything we do is over taken with it and people begin to see the Lord and not us. We die to Him in a completely different way because His love spills out from us onto those around us, even if we don’t say a word.

What are you filling your flashlight with?