Is the light that is in you darkness?

Is darkness surrounding your soul and draining away your incentive, taking away your drive, and your creativity?  Are the good things that you think are within you only evil?   John said that the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not.  Is that why you wonder about all those conflicting things in your life, because they are actually destroying you and bringing you down to that place, where you no longer feel that you have meaning in life?  Let me pause here to reassure you that Jesus can renovate your mind, renew your spirit, and restore your soul.  If you give up your sins willingly, and accept Him as your Lord and Savior, Jesus will come into your life and be a miracle for you every single day.

Miracles don´t just happen at random coincidences and rare occasions that can be witnessed and written down in a book to give credit that one was verifiable and valid.  Miracles that occur all the time are because Jesus has come into your life, and they are as normal as breathing, seeing, and hearing.  They happen as a natural process in the life of all Christians.

 The truck misses you, as you are walking down the street, because it turned into another avenue and did not cross your path, which would have flattened you like a pancake, if allowed to take place, as in a normal occurrence of daily disturbances within all human lives on earth.  Dramatic and life-ending things happen on regular occasions to all people everywhere, no matter how physically fit they are, no matter how bright and alert they are, and regardless of the degree of intelligence of the unhappy individual.  His or her life comes to a dramatic end just as fast as lightning, all because of the condition of the fabric of the universe at the appointed time of their departure, or maybe not the appointed time, but a possible deadly conjuncture of a point in time just the same.

So, do unlucky accidents happen to Christians, just like bad things happen to those who are not saved?  I would think so, of course, because Jesus as much said that the rain falls on the good and the bad alike.  There appeared to be an accident during those times and a huge tower that fell called Siloam, and it killed many that were both good and bad, not because they were great sinners, but Jesus indicated that to die suddenly, without being repentant and saved means that you shall surely perish.  What is more likely to happen and sure, that you will perish if you don´t repent, or that you might be killed suddenly by a falling tower?  I would assume that He indeed meant it, when He said that they would all surely perish in hell if they did not repent.  That is pretty much a sure thing. 

But miracles happened everywhere that Jesus walked, and many people were healed, their destiny being changed suddenly and conclusively different for the better.  Many crowds and multitudes of people were healed all at once and at the same time.  Their lives were dramatically and immediately changed for the better.  You can´t be following Jesus, without there being constantly miracles happening all the time.   

Psalms 23:3

“He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.”

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Psalms-23-3/

Luke 11:35 - 11:36

35 Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

36 If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-11-35_11-36/

John 1:5

“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-1-5/       

Matthew 5:45

“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.”

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-5-45/

Luke 13:4 - 13:5

4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Luke-13-4_13-5/ 

Matthew 12:15

“But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;”

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-12-15/

Matthew 15:30

“And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus' feet; and he healed them:”

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-15-30/

January 09, 2024

Cliff Rhodes Christian Ministry ☨