Do you walk in the Light or in darkness?

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
John 8:12

Jesus is Light. He doesn’t need to have a spotlight shined on Himself to be seen. As we live each day, we are lured and led by the spotlight that Satan shines on the temptations, the fears, the confusion of the world and if we allow the world’s spotlight to lead us, we will find ourselves in darkness as the world’s spotlight dims.

But in Jesus, we have an eternal light that leads us along the “path of Righteousness” …His Righteousness…where we discover and receive God’s love, His Forgiveness, His Provision, and His Eternal presence.

Ask Jesus to come into your life and you will never walk in darkness again. He will never leave you and His Light will always bring you back into His loving embrace. His Light will never dim.

God’s plan is for us to soar with Him.

 “He found him in a desert land, And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, And hovers over its young, He spread His wings, He caught them, He carried them on His pinions.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭32:10-11‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

God, like an eagle, tends and cares for its young by making the nest comfortable and stays close as the young mature.  He rescues us as we tumble and stumble when we leave the nest and we learn that we can depend on Him. His wings shelter us and lift us. He has created us in His image with the wings to soar with Him.

Set our eyes on Jesus

 “Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let’s rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking only at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of the faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭12:1-2‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

Look ONLY at Jesus as we run the race set before us.  It is so easy to look back, at our surroundings, or down the road in anticipation of the finish line, when the joy along the journey is found in Jesus…walking, running, and carrying us along the way.