Silhouettes

While out walking just before daybreak, I marveled at the glorious dawn the Father was sharing with me. The sun, ready to rise from behind the mountains, left the desert floor and the mountains in silhouette. It was truly beautiful. Then the Father shared something else with me.

The silhouette obscured the reality of the desert floor. The sand, the scrub brush, the cactus with needles so sharp they will stick to you and not let you go. Sin is like that. We know it’s there. But we often prefer to see it in silhouette without the stark detail of what it really looks like and what it’s doing to us and to our relationship with the Father. We can fool ourselves and think, “Oh it’s really not that bad. Look, I don’t see any real danger there.” We are comfortable in the dim light – not focusing on the reality of what that sin truly looks like when the light reveals all.

John 3:19-21 NIV – This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

I know that in my faith walk, I need to get uncomfortable. I need that light to shine so brightly that is causes my eyes to hurt. I need it to illuminate the dangerous places and those snares I don’t even realize are there. I am so grateful for our Father who brings that light even though it can be painful and difficult. Because I know He wants what’s best for me. And letting me live in a state of obscured sin blissfully thinking “I’m not that bad” isn’t what’s best for me – and it certainly doesn’t glorify Him.

Psalm 90:8 ESV – You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

Our Father bestows on us grace we don’t deserve. Yeshua died and rose again so that I may live and I don’t want to abuse His grace. I trust Him to show me the sinful places in myself I don’t want to acknowledge and surely don’t want to take a hard look at.

Isaiah 50:10 NIV – Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the LORD and rely on their God.

My prayer is when He shines that light into those places, that I don’t look away; that I have the courage and faith to open my eyes and see every nook and cranny where that ugly sin lives. Then, I can rely on Him to help me remove it from my life and give Him all the glory.

Acts 20:32 NIV”Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

May His revealing light bless you.

Psalm 119:11 NLT “I have hidden Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You.”

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