Penetrating Life’s Worldly Darkness …

Hosea 14:9 ~ Who is wise? He will realize these things. Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them. 

Abba Father good morning ~ Have you ever been in the woods while the sun settled so gradually you were caught off guard? Can you remember the last time you stayed overnight in unfamiliar surroundings? How did you feel during a recent power outage in your home? Have you ever found yourself lost in a city as darkness surrounded your life? Were you ever stranded in the middle of nowhere in the penetrating darkness throughout the night? Have you ever been on a lake as the fog or darkness settled-in making it feel uneasy? Do you ever remember being disorientated in an environment of total darkness? What feelings were generated? Did fear, panic, worry, anxiety, desperation, hopelessness become real as our life was temporary isolated from comforting security of light? Let’s be extremely realistic. Darkness can be downright intimidating. Did your imagination run wild within the unseen? Take a moment. Reflect on past experiences. Was our life living ready? Were we prepared? Were we protectively equipped? One must live purposefully alert among the ways of this world. The living bible teaches about living boldly ready, courageously prepared, fearlessly equipped. Living ready for all the unexpected. Prepared for all the unknowns. Equipped for all the uncertainties. Actively living among the ways of this world everyone will stumble in the worldly darkness. How far our life falls is the question. Never forget ~ satan is extremely prepared to lure our life into darkness. Strategically, deviously, delusionally presenting ways of life appearing to be appealing, rewarding, satisfying. Having sole-purpose of getting our inner-core of thriving life lost within the delusional darkness of the ways of this world. Remember ~ satan is extremely meticulous. Wanting nothing less than isolating: Our Heart ~ Our Mind ~ Our Soul. Our very life. There will always be obstacles attempting to cause stumbling, tripping, falling throughout life. Moments where worldly darkness becomes an entangling snare. Obstacles to living abundantly within The Lord Our God’s powerful life-changing engageable undeserved grace. Snares of satan’s ungodliness strategically embedded within instant gratifications, materialism, pornography, gambling, drugs, alcohol, technology. Any addiction consuming: our time, our energy, our resources. Hazards getting in the way of family, friends, encounters with all of life. It might be hard to see clearly within the darkness of night, as our life encounters the middle of the woods, power outages at home, unexpected environments, unfamiliar surroundings overnight. What darkness is attempting our life to trip, stumble, fall? What darkness is attempting to isolate our life from living protectively within The Lord Our God who is purposefully loving all of life personally, unconditionally, intimately? Remember ~ Our life can live ready, prepared, equipped. Our life can have heavenly oil to burn, a heavenly match to strike, a heavenly promise to shine. Reading the living bible, holding it tightly, embracing it willingly. The Lord Our God will shine brightly into all the worldly darkness of our life’s brokenness. The oil our life burns is the living bible. The match our life strikes is our heavenly faith. The light our life shines into darkness is a life of living within The Lord Our God’s powerful cleansing, redeeming, restorational undeserved grace. All fully-engageable. Worldly darkness can never extinguish a life of heavenly faith willingly living believing, accepting, trusting, following within Our Living God, Our Lord Christ Jesus, Holy Spirit. As our life lives through the darkness of this world. Our life will shine brightly with an abundance of everlasting living hope, comforting agape love, releasing sacrificial forgiveness, engageable everlasting life in heaven. The oil our life burns, match our life strikes, light our life shines are all un-earnable, un-purchasable, un-creatable free-gifts of life-changing undeserved grace. Free-engageable-gifts shinning everlasting life (Holy Spirit) into life’s brokenness (our sinfulness) within anointed sustainable life (Christ Jesus) within everlasting life in heaven (Abba Father). Heavenly engageable gifs transforming real hearts, real minds, real souls. Protective gifts penetrating satan’s dilutional darkness of snarling ungodliness as our heavenly faith shines renewing, refreshing, redeeming, restoring life’s brokenness. Remember ~ We have choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. Our life can live within the ways of this world tripping, stumbling, falling into satan’s entrapping darkness. Or our life can live abundantly within the cleansing light of redeeming undeserved grace of life-changing restoration within Our Living God, Our Lord Christ Jesus, Holy Spirit. Our life shining brightly into the snarling darkness of the ways of this world. Oil our life is burning. Match our life is striking. Life our life is living. Shines within our heart, our mind, our soul. What is our oil, our match, our life burning? Ways of this rebellious world or life-changing ways of God the Father ~ God the Son ~ God the Holy Spirit? Reflect if you must with utmost urgency. One must purposefully live alert. How is our life living: worldly or heavenly.           

Father ~ Thank you for shining brightly into the darkness of my sinful life. Brightly shining anointed blessings of life-changing undeserved grace cleansing, redeeming, restoring deeply within my inner-core of thriving life. Abba Father ~ Help my life burn the oil of agape love within my heart, strike the match of heavenly truthfulness within my mind, shine the light of life-changing faith living within my soul. Teaching my life how to live protectively within heaven above. Showing my life how to live within boldness, courageousness, fearlessness. Protectively shining cleansing, redeeming, restoration into the dark sinfulness of my life. Helping my humanistic life live abundantly within you forever Abba Father, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit.

Michael J Zenner