Have you ever been afraid of God’s will for your life? For most believers, the honest answer to that question is yes.
At one time or another, they’ve worried that God might ask them to spend their lives serving Him in some dark, barren place, as a missionary to a poverty-ridden village in Africa, for example, or preaching the gospel in some gang-infested inner city, or working in a sin-filled office surrounded by spiritual darkness.
I just don’t think I could take that kind of life! you might think. I love the Lord and desire to please Him, but I’m just not cut out to live in those kinds of conditions.
No, you’re not.
I’m not either.
Neither is any other born-again child of God.
“Oh, Brother Curtis, I just don’t know how you
can say such a thing!” someone might argue. “God needs believers who are willing to go to places like that. He needs witnesses to take the light of the gospel into the darkest spots on earth.”
Sure He does. But when God sends a believer to such a place, He doesn’t expect him to live in those darkened conditions. He expects him to change them. He expects us to overcome the darkness with the light.
That’s what light is designed to do. It’s made to illuminate the area around it. That’s true of natural light and it’s true of the spiritual light of God. If we’ll walk in that light, it will fill the circumstances and conditions around
us with the glory of God so we’re surrounded with blessing wherever we go.
No matter how dark the conditions around us, “The Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it” (John 1:5, The Amplified Bible).
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