The Daily Blinding

Our lives, as characterized by living in a world surrounded by sin, deceit and pride is essentially a deep dark pit. For those who have seen Sponge Bob Square Pants, there is an episode where Mr. Crabs builds a well in order to make money, for greed but thats beside the point, the point is that he sends Sponge Bob down to the bottom to collect money as people throw it in. Now think about the darkness, the loneliness and the emptiness at the bottom of that well. Completely surrounded and fully engulfed in that darkness, and in that place often we are worked on, our hearts are transformed. "He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from my foes, who were too strong for me. They confronted me in the day of my disaster, but the Lord was my support. He brought me out into spacious place; He rescued me because he delighted in me (Psalm 18:16-19)." Now I am a big imagery guy if you cannot tell and what I think of when I imagine our God rescuing us is the same as being slingshot out of darkness and into that blinding glorious light. How warm, how inviting that feels to know that we are no longer in the place of disaster, submerged in deep waters. The hardest part is knowing where to go and what to do first, how to better seek after Him, we are blinded by the light which we slowly accustom our eyes too. This can also be somewhat of a terrifying idea though because we are never supposed to grow to comfortable in our faith, we are always supposed to seek a deeper relationship with Him who is the creator of all, our Father. I suppose that this is why he makes life such an adventure though, so that we may not only have to come to Him once, but daily because we are not perfect people in the slightest. Every day we need to accustom ourselves to the light that is the truth of our God.