Light Vs Darkness

I'm back. Read & be blessed

The dispensation of darkness is gone and the dispensation of light is here. The dispensation of darkness is the dispensation without Christ. It can otherwise be called the hour of the kingdom of darkness. Before the advent of Christ the devil had a field day terrorising, tormenting and destroying lives at will. Darkness reigned and many were held in captivity by it without any hope of deliverance.

The coming of Jesus, His death and resurrection ushered in the Light of God, this Light terminated the reign of darkness all over the world and established the reign of the Light of God all over the world.

Today, if anyone is living in darkness or if anyone is under the manipulation of darkness, it is either as a result of ignorance or by choice. The bible makes it clear that one of the things that characterizes the people of the world is that they are people who by choice have preferred darkness to light because their deeds are evil (John 3: 19-21)

All those who embrace our Lord Jesus Christ has embraced light, bible says that those who are in Christ are in the light, they walk in the light and so there is no occasion for them to stumble (1 John 2: 10). However love is the key that grant them permanent access to light. When a believer stops walking in love, the implication is that he has stepped out of light into darkness and that is terrible.

Take heed of your ways therefore as a believer and ensure that you walk in love in your relationship with fellow believers and people generally, when you step our of love, you step out of the light of God into darkness and I need not tell you how terrible that can be.

May God give you the grace to remain in His light. Shalom

But Do You Follow the Lord wholeheartedly?

Text: Num. 32: 10-12

It is not enough to follow the Lord, in following the Lord we must be prepared to follow Him wholeheartedly.

The people of Israel were following the Lord under the leadership of Moses, but they did not follow Him wholeheartedly and so many of them perished in the wilderness, not because the Lord was able to take them all into the promised land but because they offended Him on the way and He rose up against them to destroy them in His anger.

How do you know when you are not following the Lord wholeheartedly?

1. When your heart is not completely with Him – when the going is good you believe in Him but the moment the going is bad, you turn away from Him to something else

2. When you refuse to trust Him completely even after you have seen Him do mighty works in your life in the past

3. When you are disloyal to Him, you fear other people, idols more than Him

4. When your heart is always turning away from Him to the oath of sin

5. When you murmur, grumble or complain against him and His representative – the Israelites did that many times and God was not happy with them

When you do not follow the Lord wholeheartedly -

1. Instead of reward you position yourself for punishment

2. Instead of His love and affection, you become a victim of His anger

3. You make yourself God's enemy and so all that He has helped you to gather over the years may be destroyed at once

4. Your life may be cut short by God Himself.

5. Ultimately you will not get to heaven

We saw all these happen to the Israelites, of all them that left Egypt, only Joshua and Caleb made it to the promised land the rest of the people, including Moses and Aaron their leader died in the wilderness. So you can see that whoever does not follow the Lord wholeheartedly should forget about going to heaven and prepare for a place in hell. That will not be our portion in Jesus name. Amen