”For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine; the Lord my God illumines my darkness.”

What an awesome verse!

When I read this verse today, there was such a presence of the Lord. That He is making me to finally realize that He is the light of my life. It is He that leads us through the valleys. That He is the light, the one that prepares the pathway before us so that we can see that He is our sole source. That He will finish that which He has begun in us.

What hope there is in this simple verse. It should make us rejoice, to leap with joy. For He will, not maybe, light the lamp, He will keep the flame burning.

Oh, the wick will need trimmed at times and the oil replenished but that is where our part comes in as we stay focused on Him.

To allow Him to replenish us each day with fresh oil, fresh manna, that yesterday is gone and tomorrow is yet to arrive.

That each day as we come before our Father we draw strength from Him. We are refilled, replenished. Given what is needed for the day to enable us to walk that path that is set before us.

He will illuminate us. Allow us to see what is needed. What we need to do. To be changed by His word, by His spirit. That He will enlighten our darkness so that we do not have to stumble but rather, He lights the path before us, as we are focused on Him. He exposes the cracks, the rocks, the things that are in our path as we walk with Him.

He so wants us to realize the reality of who He is. That He is Lord. That He takes delight in us when we come into His presence. He truly delights in us when we spend time with Him.

Is that not awesome! That the creator of Heaven takes pleasure in spending time with you and I. That we each are unique, created by Him for a time such as this and it is only as we begin to realize this, that we begin to understand, that as we go through the valleys of life, as well as the mountain tops, we are brought into His purpose, as we take the focus from us to Him. Only then will we begin to see.

There is nothing that we have gone through that can’t be used to bring glory to the Lord and we can be used as that lamp that shines brightly in the midst of the darkness and allows the Christ within to shine forth and bring hope to others.

When that light shines forth, it will draw others to want to know more about our Lord, that they will see it is a reality, not a theory and desire to know the giver of life and light.

Then we indeed will be able to say, “Lord, You light up my life, you give me hope and you make my path clear in the midst of darkness.”

Till later,

Paul

“In 2012 let us share the heart of the Father, to share the hope of the new life that we have in Christ!!”

“Don’t ever think that what you write or share is not important, for it is. There have been a number of times as I have visited or blogged by so many other blogs, that a word shared, a thought expressed, was the very word that I needed at that moment, at that time, that made me to realize that I was indeed hearing from my Father, that I was not alone, for others have walked this path also. So thank you my many friends for sharing, for being real, for allowing the Lord to use you to express His heart so many times.”

“You may never know who you have touched, or brought freedom to. That which you shared might be the key that opens the door of their hearts to the Lord, to received from Him, that which He has for them, as it causes them to open up to Him.”

“Don’t be afraid to write, to share, to speak, allow the Lord to use you as a key to open the hearts of others to receive the healing word, the healing power, the healing touch of the life, that breath from God that will breathe life into their hearts, to the spirit and bring restoration to them.”

“Thank you my friends, for being the hand of God extended, for sharing, for giving, even when you didn’t realize that you have given a word, whether written or spoken, that has rekindle the fire, the passion of the Lord within and causing me, as well as others to pursue the Lord with all that is with in.”

Later,

Paul

aka The Mayor