Let's live in the light no matter the nightmare it reveals in us

So beautiful really.

Ps.
{119:151} Thou [art] near, O LORD; and all thy commandments [are] truth.
{119:152} Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.

Truth, testimonies founded forever.

All thy commandments are truth.

There is beauty in this, knowing that in God there is only truth, never a lie, never a misconception, no deceptions. Everything is made plain, the path is straight. Living in a world where there are so few you can really trust, where deceptions are so common you have to raise your children letting them know that 'that's the way people are', is so sad. It's no wonder depression is rampant. You have to wonder if your partner will deceive you, if your children are lying to you, even if parents aren't being deceptive. If you can honestly say that your mate, your family, your children would never lie to you then people were call you deluded. Why? Because that's the world we live in today. Integrity, honesty, uprightness is called strange and abnormal. Not going out there and sewing your wild oats is odd and makes you different and off in some way, not the norm.

God's commandments are true, His testimonies forever.

God's way is deception free.

I'm not saying all Christians are deception free, nooooooo, not saying that. I'm saying God's way is. If a Christian is following God's way they'll shun deception, they'll know deception is a sin and want to repent from deceiving, to turn from it by the grace of God.

That old- Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven- is true and yet Christians may come off as if they're trying to be perfect because the example they are aiming to follow is perfect. Striving for perfection will never make you perfect, striving to live as Jesus instructs us to live will naturally lead towards that perfection, it's an automatic outcome of the life they are trying to emulate with Christ in them and they in Christ.

Col. {1:27} To whom God would make known what [is] the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory

Gal. {2:20} I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Christ living in us, living in the spirit of Christ.

An old friend might meet the daughter of a woman she knew long ago and upon meeting them and watching them over a period of time be able to say truthfully that they're just like their mother, their mannerisms and such, they might even say the spirit of your mother is alive in you. You've heard that before- keeping someone's spirit alive and you know what they mean- it's the way about someone that keeps that alive.

Gal. {5:25} If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Jesus promised us the Holy Spirit would come to us, walking with Christ, Christ living in us, having the Spirit, when we do this the automatic outcome is being more and more like Christ and less and less like our former self.

1 Pet.
{1:13} Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ
{1:14} As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance
{1:15} But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation
{1:16} Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

God is truth.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

Jesus is forever.

Jesus' truth is forever.

Grace gives us hope, without the grace of God there is no hope. Clinging to that hope, to the grace of God, to Jesus, is life. Drawing closer and closer to Jesus our lives will reflect Him. Don't despair if you feel farther away and less worthy the closer you get, those are tools of Satan eager to use so that you will give up your hope by making you think you are trying to save yourselves and failing miserably. We don't have to let Satan use those feelings against us. We can embrace them and know that any chastising, any clarity to our own unworthiness is really showing us that we are standing in the light of Christ and that light is revealing our failings but more importantly it's revealing His glory and His power to save to the uttermost.

Heb. {7:25} Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them

The light can blind, the light can reveal the dirt in the corners, but the light also offers protection from darkness, the light gives warmth, the light gives sight.

May we all be bathed brilliantly in the light of Christ's truth and glory even if it means seeing each and every ugly blemish upon us and in our lives. While seeing the blemishes only make us feel ugly and unworthy, we can see them and have our hope that one day we will be blemish free, our characters will be free of sin in that day. Let's live in the light no matter the nightmare it reveals in us. Don't let the light be used to drive us back into darkness where we don't have to look at the horrors of sin we live with that's a trick of Satan- letting us 'feel' better about life and ourselves when we look back to the darkness and find comfort in our sins thinking it's just 'easier' that way. It might be easier and feel better but the end of it is death everlasting without any hope of glory, the only true happiness and true love we have to look forward to, a life, a love Christ promises to us in Him, by His grace.

Amen.