Well, this is my first post for this blog after being commissioned by my husband to begin recording my thoughts and insights. I don't know who would be interested in knowing what strange thoughts lurk in the grey matter between my ears, but I will go forth as I have been encouraged and trust God to do with it what He wills.
I was preparing for a lesson about electricity with my children and reading a book that explains how electricity is made, how it flows from a generator to our houses, and what makes lights go on and off. Part of the lesson included hooking a light bulb up to a battery to make a circuit. I had learned the scientific principles of how light switches worked before, but as a Christian, this lesson took on a whole new meaning, as Spiritual truth began to flow out of what I was studying.
Light bulbs light up because there is a continual flow of electricity in a circuit between the power source and the light bulb. If anything breaks the flow, the circuit is broken and the light goes off. Think about that. If anything breaks our connection to our POWER SOURCE, the LIGHT goes off.
So what breaks OUR connection? Why does our light go out? Fear, lack of trust, guilt, doubt, anger, unforgiveness, jealousy, our desire to control things, lust, laziness? Each of us has a different switch that gets flipped when we give into temptation. In James 1:14-15 it says that "each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death." So we are tempted not by God, but by our desires. They lure us away, the switch is flipped, the light goes out. How do we make sure the switch stays on and our power continues flowing? The key seems to be to change our desires. If we desire what is good, that which is evil will not tempt us, we will be disgusted by it. How do our desires change? By delighting ourselves in the LORD. Then He will give us the desires of our heart. Pure, righteous desires that align with His will. But we cannot delight in someone we don't know. We have to spend time with Him, praying, reading His Word, doing what it says, spending time with His people.
I don't think I will ever look at a light switch the same way again. Each time I flip it on or off, it is a reminder that I can be a light so long as the circuit to Him who is my power source is unbroken. And I will thank Him that even though I often give in to sin and my switch is flipped and my light goes out, He is ready to forgive me and restore the circuit as soon as I come to to Him.
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