WHY YOU SHOULD BE THE LIGHT

Let me ask you a question…do you believe the worst about yourself and focus on the bad in the world and the present circumstances?  Does it make your heart and mind want to crumble under the pressure and weight of it all?  Do your knees buckle when you hear of more and more evil going on in the world?

I humbly suggest to you today that it may be time to change your focus.  We aren’t called to focus on the bad and, to be honest with you, just gonna truth bomb for a sec here, it takes literally ZERO wisdom, insight, or talent to focus on the negative.  

It takes, on the other hand, great intention, purpose, willpower, and choice to focus on the unseen and Heavenly perspective so that you are able to see clearly what the real reality is…”God has not been defeated and He will not be”. 

He has called us to be the light.  It is almost impossible to do that if your focus and entire mindset is the darkness.  It’s good to go seek out those that are lost and hurting and share the light with them and to even go peacefully protest some of the real evils in the world, but it’s not ok to get so sucked in to those evils and darkness that it has drained your desire to be the light away and hence put out your flame.  

Be on fire for the light! Count it all joy!  Look around you and see the light everywhere.  Look at the trees. They stand tall and firm and repeatedly bloom.  Look at the grass and mud that warms our feet in a season.  The beautiful flowers that come back to life in Spring.  

Choose your focus.  Choose to put your focus on lovely and heavenly and good things.  It doesn’t mean you are immune to the bad things and unaware, in fact, it means the opposite.  It means because those things are so heinous you are CHOOSING to focus on the lovely things and fill your mind with those things as a way to combat the evil and worldly mentality.  

Choose to focus on life.

Choose to focus on beauty.

Choose to focus on love.

Choose to focus on joy.

Choose to focus on breath.

Phillippians 4:8 tells us  “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

So hey here’s the deal..I spent most of my life believing the lies of the darkness…I am worthless, everything that goes wrong is my fault, I am ugly, stupid, and unwanted. Live by guilt because you should do everything you can to do better because you aren’t enough.

When I was a kid, the other kids made fun of me and called me names and threw spitballs at my head and laughed at the site of me.

When I was an EMT I encountered and witnessed much pain, sadness, many deaths, darkness, and trauma.

Caregiving for my paralyzed mom I was completely swallowed up with guilt and never-ending grief that made each breath heavier than the one before.

Miscarrying multiple times left me in a place of believing my body was a tomb of death no longer a vessel of life.

The problem with all these scenarios is that from the beginning I had the wrong imprint for light and hope…until NOW!

There will always be darkness in the world and what’s interesting is each generation seems to believe theirs is worse than the ones before.

Guess what though guys?

Have you even read the Bible? I mean come on!!! Seriously messed up wicked stuff in there that is honestly no different from what is going on now…I think it’s maybe because we tend to think of the Bible as some “stories” instead of real-life flesh and bone pain and torment, light and hope FACTS! 

Their stories happened and are as real as are yours and mine!

That should encourage you, not discourage you!

We are told not to be surprised when painful trials come our way but to count it all joy!

Here’s the deal….God can deliver you from that negativity, world focused mentality, depression, anxiety, or whatever it is that is holding you so tightly you can’t be the Light you were meant to be and grab a hold of the strong Hope that is ours to claim! 

I am so thrilled to be free finally from the tangled web of lies I believed for so long and passionately want you to be able to experience that freedom as well!. 

It really is good and ok to smile and be joyful and choose positivity and to speak truth out loud and do all this unafraid!

If we sit in silence and don’t step into the light to become the light and share that with the world then what is the point?

Yes, there will always be evil and darkness, but it can NEVER put out the LIGHT!!! So why not choose light?

There will always be light and if you peer hard enough and take those perspective glasses out of their cases again and dust them off you just may see clearly for the first time that you really can choose how you get to look at life and that you can go be the light the world so desperately needs!!!

Please accept this FREE custom printable as a gift from our family to yours to remind you to BE THE LIGHT!

Comment below with some light you can share today as you shift your focus away from the darkness!

Blessings

Susan