(February 6, 2015)
Sometimes
we like to fool ourselves into thinking that the Lord works through darkness. The most common way that I find myself
thinking this, is when I consider that the Lord has taught me something through
my mistakes and my sins. Recognizing
that the Lord has brought goodness out of my evil and weakness, I then try to
make the leap of logic that my sin and my weakness are therefore ‘good’ because
of what I have learned through them.
The reality,
of course, is that our lives are never made better through sin. Instead, the Lord may teach us in our sin and
weakness because that is the only way we will allow ourselves to be taught. We would better learn if we could open our
hearts to Him and be humble, but if we cannot manage that on our own He will
teach us where we are. Our lessons will
be more painful, and likely not as good, but it is still better to be taught in
our darkness than to linger in our darkness. But it is not our darkness that teaches us,
but His light that reaches us in our darkness.
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