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A LITTLE LIGHT SHED UPON THE DARKNESS…
I don’t always know when I sit down to
type exactly what will come pouring out of my fingers, out of my heart,
out from my spirit as it is influenced by the Spirit of God. Most people
don’t even try to be the lamp that contains the light of the Lord. It is
not easy in an American society where it is disdained to believe that
God might actually want to speak out through you, that God might want to
do miracles through you, or that Christ might actually want you to be
his representative (PUT ON CHRIST) through literal “surrender”.
We all want to see the ‘brilliant men’
and the listen to the most ‘brilliant minds’ but we just don’t want to
be influenced by the BRILLIANCE OF GOD.
Light came to the
400 years of darkness in John the Baptist; they cut off his head. So God
let his light ‘decrease’ and Christ’s light increase.
Light came to the
darkness in Jesus Christ; they reached to turn off the switch. God
decided to take Christ out of reach and then show Steven the Truth; they
gnashed their teeth and sent him to his Maker.
Light came against
the darkness in the face of Saul of Tarsus turned Paul of Christ; they
hounded him, defamed him, imprisoned him, beat him, and locked him up in
Rome hoping to hide the light. God dribbled the oil out on pages of
light.
Light came to the
early church in great quantity; they wrote laws against it, drove it
into the caves, the hills, the mountains and the valleys. Then they all
said “see weirdoes in the woods and freaks in the forest”. The world was
not worthy of them; the world is never worthy of the light.
God news: light once activated never
stops in the darkness of space; likewise, neither does The Light ever
stop in the darkness of human inner space. Once the Light shines in, it
passes spiritually via quantum leaps from personal universe to personal
universe until it seems to appear everywhere; like the stars for number.
The darkness cannot quench the light; so
they try to break the lamps! They spill out the oil and trample it under
foot that it might not be in the lamp any more. Yet, it is by then too
late, for the oil has already multiplied into another vessel ready to
contain it even before the last vessel ‘decreases’ in use. Age after
age history declares this true.
Light illuminates in an ever expanding
circle from a very small pinpoint origin. It is only the amount of
‘power’, composition of the ‘bulb’, and the design of the vessel which
dictates the limit of the amount of light which streams out. In days of
old it was Hollowed Oil in clay which shone upon all. Now it is Halogen
((metaphorically speaking)) & Electricity; new jars, new “oil”. It is a
type of who we are now; new human vessels with stronger light.
Last thought: Do you know what light
“exposes”? Nothing… really; it just ‘reveals’ the shadow lurking on the
other side of the thing that light hit; oh, and things you weren’t
looking directly at with open eyes!!!
Finally consider: are you the vessel of
the LIGHT, or are you the vessel being ‘shined on’?
**Walk in the light while it is yet day,
for the time cometh when they will again not tolerate any light; and THE
LIGHT will not much longer tolerate the Darkness.**
© Anthony J. Massotti Th.M., Th.M.
6/21/2009 |
