Sep
29
Unusual in the Light
Filed Under Devotional
As a teenager, I loved nighttime. That’s when my friends and I would decide to go hang out at weird places or do odd things just because we could. We were old enough to have a driver’s license and be out late. We were also old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway. We’d justify bending the rules because “nobody would know”. It was late and dark and we’d convince ourselves that there would be no consequences. At that age, it seemed like it would be fun to live like that all the time. Now, I know better.
If you’re still living your life in the dark because it’s fun to skirt the rules and live on the edge of normalcy, it’s time to look in the mirror. If you prefer the night and the shadows and scurry from the light, what does that tell you?
“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.” John 3:20-21
It seems hip and cool to skip out on being normal. I agree, but I choose to be unusual in the light of Jesus. I refuse to just be weird in the dark.