Shadows: The Light

The last two little posts about shadows have dealt with the object that comes between a person and the light in which casts a shadow. Also, there were dealings with the shadow itself, now onto the third and last installment of this mini-series. However if you have not read the others (not that it's a flowing series where you need one to know the other) I encourage you to go........read!

The source of shadows is a blocking of light by something. I feel it necessary (devotionally speaking, as most of these posts are) to deal with the lighter side of the subject. No really, I want to talk about the light. If there is a shadow, there is light on the other side of it. There is a pure source of light, the warming, vitamin giving, richness of the sun.

We need the light, no matter how you interpret that saying. The sun for health, Jesus for healing and restoration. Well obviously you all know the path I'm going to take, that's right, Sunday school answer everyone, say it with me JESUS.

Christian or non-Christian we all can use this analogy. Christians have sin in their lives that they are struggling with, that nags inside of them each time they succumb to it's dreary oppression. Whatever that is could be the object that casts it's shadow on a person, but bear in mind there must be light on the other side. Non-Christians have things to the same effect, they have sin, they might not recognize that sin, they may not even believe in sin, but it could be the object blocking them from the Son.

The light is something we should strive to get too. The hard part about it is this object that blocks it out, we cannot detour around it, there is no avoiding it. We must go through it. We must persevere, as painful as it may seem, the light it so worth it. Fighting through the shadow and the object that casts the shadow is a part of becoming stronger.

It is how we become transformed into stronger creations in Christ.

The light is on the other side of the thing that stands in the way of it, we just have to be willing to overcome it and reach the light. The light I'm alluding to is Jesus, we all need him, we all need to live in the light of his sacrifice without hindrance. 

All to God