For You will light my lamp; The Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. --Psalm 18: 28
Father,
Thank you for your word! Thank you that You have magnified it above your name! What a comfort it is to me always. What a blessing to know that when I sit in darkness You will be a light to me. In the multitude of my anxieties within this verse in particular has brought me so much peace. Unto those who open their heart to You and believe there arises light in the darkness of this world. You give light to those who sit in the shadow of death and guide their feet in the way of peace. You are gracious, full of compassion and righteous. You make even the night light about us! This is not so for those who reject Your word. Who look to themselves and the things of the world rather than their Maker. The light of the wicked shall be put out and the spark of his fire will not shine. The light shall be dark where he dwells and his candle put out with him. Even the light they enjoy, Father, is dark without You.
We all have the sentence of death in us. But You, in Your goodness, provide a way out. The wages of sin is death...and all of us sin and fall short of Your glory....but the gift of eternal life that You have given us in Your Son, Jesus, brings us an everlasting hope and life with you forever.
When I walk in darkness, Father, You are my lamp. It is by Your light that I walk. You brought me, a woman blinded by her own sin and selfishness, in a way that I knew not. You made my path which was darkness light and my crooked places straight. You, Father, do this for me always and never leave me nor forsake me. You are my great and awesome God.
