SUNDAYS WITH JOYCE

WORD FOR TODAY

Darkness
1. God callled darkness 'night'    Genesis 1:5    And, God called the light Day, and the darknes He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
2. Lord marks the darkness    Isaiah 45:7    I form the light, and create darkness:  I make peace, and create evil:  I, the Lord, do all those things.
3. No harmony between light and darkness    2 Corinthians 6:14,    Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers:  for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness?  and what communion hath light with darkness?   
4. Minds full of darkness    Ephesians 4:18    Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
5. Our hearts were once full of darkness    Ephesians 5:8    For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord:  walk as children of light:

 

 

Our Deepest Fear
By Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine,
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

 

 

I especially like  "Isaiah 45:7    I form the light, and create darkness:  I make peace, and create evil:  I, the Lord, do all those things."   In this I an reminded that God creates the darkness, and we need not be afraid of the dark.  

We often think that evil, taboo, and the secret desires rule us, or that we should not dwell within it's clutches, but God is ALWAYS more powerful than "any" evil, or "dark" force we come up against.  He will not let us be overtaken, beyond that which we can handle.  He would not put more on us than we can bear.  

He is the KING of the night and day.  There is no temptation that cometh unto man, that He has not made a way for us to escape.