“The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1
When I was a child, I was afraid of the dark. The unknown of what was out there just seemed to chill me to the core. My childhood was filled with abuse and the inability to control my surroundings drove me to want to know what was going on around me at all times. The dark does not allow for you to know what is going on around you because you cannot your surroundings.
Thinking of my Lord and Savior as my light gave me comfort because with God in my life, I don’t have to fear what is in the dark. The same is true for other areas of my life. I used to be so afraid that events were going to happen to me that I wouldn’t be able to handle. Someone was going to die or leave me and I was not going to be able to keep myself together or worse I would not be able to survive.
Over the years some of those fears have come true and it was in those moments that I learned that even if I fell completely apart, I was going to survive but only because I had chosen earlier in my life accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. At each of those pivotal moments, I was faced with a choice, to lean on God or start down a dark path. Thankfully, I had a foundation of who God is and what He means to me that I was able to choose to place my trust in God. God placed in my life other people who were there physically when each one of those moments occurred. I know that God was the One who placed them there. I also spent time away from other people during those moments, but I was not alone, God was with me.
Now those fears have lessened and some of them have even disappeared but that is only because God has shown me that no matter what happens, He is not leaving me and He is my stronghold.
Who is your light?