Dear God,
Again upon Your day of worship, I have known Your presence, in Your Holy Word and when worshipping You. I also praise You for being longsuffering and gracious, through the leading of the Holy Spirit. I accept the Scriptures as true and have found I cannot necessarily trust the teaching and research of man, his wisdom or just choose what I will believe despite God’s Holy Word. For me it has been no burden to believe Your Holy Word in its entirety. In Genesis 1: 1-3 we are told that God created the heavens and the earth. To begin with all was indistinct and in darkness. “The Holy Spirit was hovering over the face of the waters.” “Then God said, ‘Let there be light, and there was light.”
John, the beloved disciple of Jesus, had oft been in communication with Jesus and referred to Him in relation to creation; as the Word. John 1:1- 3 “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.”
God never leaves anything in darkness and neither did He leave the world in literal darkness. Genesis 1: 4 “And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.” It is God who takes away our darkness of mental perception and spirit. 2 Corinthians 4:6 “For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” I find it is a total enhancement of mental clarity to come out of literal and spiritual darkness into the light of Jesus, much like entering sunny days after the prolonged darker days of winter, especially those of the short winter days in some areas.
We cannot rightly hope and anticipate the joy of living in the future within the city of God, but even our inadequate feelings and knowledge, makes the city of God, worth thinking about. Revelation 22: 5 “There will be no night there: they need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.”
Jesus You fills me with light, joy and certainty for the future.
Amen