“Father's Son”

 Psalm 18:16, 28

He reached down from Heaven and rescued me; He

drew me out of deep waters.  LORD, you have brought

light to my life; My God, you light up my darkness.  (NLT)

     Not so long ago my life was drowning in a dark sea of self-pity and self-hatred; despising this cursed life and longing for an end to it all.  I was sinking deeper into a dark depth of hopelessness that sin always brings into the lost and isolated life—sin that was pulling me closer to the edge of the abyss that dropped deep into an endless darkness.  The very thought of living to an old age weighed heavily on my heart and was dragging me down a dark path of depression with utter regret of ever being born and becoming the vile person I had so not wanted to become.  I was mad at God and disappointed in the world.  I was intolerant of most people and I hated myself.  But it was in this fallen state of mind and unbeknownst to me, I was in the very place that the Enemy of God wants everyone to be.  There are no human words that can fully explain the unrelenting torment that darkness brings, especially when you feel trapped and forsaken.  The best scenario I can give is like being tied up and falling into an unknown darkness that you know will end badly, and there is absolutely no escape from whatever horrors that are lurking in the deepest darkness that you are falling into. 

     Living in darkness is not how God created us to live, so He is faithfully reaching into the darkness to rescue us.  We have a God who has a Divine Plan for our escape from the prison of darkness that many are locked away in.  He is the Lord God Almighty.  It is God the Father’s Sovereign Plan.  It is God the Son who graciously pulled it off.  And it is God the Holy Spirit who takes care of the rest. This fallen world can only deliver more of the same darkness and death, but God can deliver you from the prison of Hell and give you life.  The only Way is in the Father’s Son.

                                                         

                                      A Whisper of Hope

I bring life-saving Light, child…that’s what I do.  I know the hopelessness that darkness brings.  That is why the Father sent Me; to bring Light to you.  You will always struggle in this dark world that wants to consume your soul, but it is in My Light that you are saved out of the darkness and given the peace and strength to see you through to the other side.

2 Corinthians 4:4

Satan, the god of this evil world, has blinded the minds

of those who don’t believe, so they are unable to see the

glorious Light of the Good News that is shining upon them.  (NLT)

             “I [Jesus] have told you all this so that you 

                        may have peace in Me.”

                                 (John 16:33)