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I AM A CHILD OF LIGHT

by Silvia Leigh

 

 

‘There are those who rebel against the light, who do not know its ways or stay in its paths’ (Job 24:13)

‘For you were once darkness but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light…’ (Eph 5:8)

 

Job reminds us that there are wicked people in this world. We sometimes forget the truth, deceiving ourselves that all human beings are good, nice, faithful and generous. Then God permits that we should encounter a wicked person and we feel afresh the grief of betrayal and loss. The pain is just a reminder of the truth: only God is totally good!  The pain is also deliverance from the deadly bondage to deceit.

Truth is a fruit of the light (Eph 5:8-10). Truth is not available to all men. Truth is Jesus. Truth died to set us free. You need the pay the price for truth to be your friend. Truth needs the light of the Scriptures. Truth is ‘a domesticated’ blessing. It is only by the leading of the Holy Spirit that you can discern truth (Jn 16:13). No other spirit can bring truth to you. If you are born again, you are blessed! If you are Spirit filled, you are blessed even more!

There are many wicked people who enjoy, who love darkness and hate the truth. There is the armed robber who sleeps during the day and it is on active duty in the night. Darkness is his friend. Darkness covers his footsteps so he can run away from his dying victim, his pockets full of stolen money. The adulterer waits for the night to come. He is attracted by the colored bulbs hanging at the gate of prostitutes. Darkness covers his face. His wife, his friends will never know of his double life of stolen pleasures. Then, there are the oppressors, the opportunists.  These are fake religious men who are skillful in deceiving others. Their preaching is designed to steal the joy and peace of others. They cheat the hopeless, the needy, the widow or the barren woman who is looking for a baby. They promise them miracles of healing and prosperity so that they remain in bondage to wicked, false hopes.

These wicked men have this in common. They rebel against the light of God!

What is the light of God? It is the revelation of His Person and of His glory!

The light of God comes to men in three main ways: Thru the nature, the conscience and the Scriptures.

 

First, God reveals His existence thru His creation. The nature, the mountains and the sea, the sun, moon and stars, all these tell us that God exists and he created them all.

‘The heavens declare the glory of God…day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge…their voice goes out into all the earth’ (Ps 19:1-4)

The wicked people see the nature as something common. They believe that man came out of monkeys and the earth from a lost material in the sky. They think ‘scientifically’ and doubt the Creator.

The question is this: what is the attitude of your mind when you see God’s creation? What do you think of His mountains and lakes, of His birds and fishes? When you travel and see new things, how do you feel? Do you remember God and do you worship Him as the Creator of the whole universe? Can a rain drop or a water lily inspire you enough to write a poem, a song or a letter to God? If the answer is no, then you are a wicked man. You should repent of rebellion against the light of God!

 

Secondly, God reveals His light thru the conscience. God has placed in the spirit of man an organ called conscience who will warn and rebuke you for your sins. If you know the good thing to do, and your conscience testifies to it, but you reject its voice, then you are a wicked man. If you know that your action is bad, and your conscience troubles you, but you continue in your sin, then you are a wicked man. You rebel against the conscience, which is a mirror of the light of God (1Tim 1:19, 4:1-4; Jam 4:17)

 

Thirdly, there is the light of the revelation of God’s Word. This is the greatest and purest of all lights. Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh. His Word is ‘a lamp under your feet’. The more you read the Bible and repent of your sins, the more light will shine on your path of life. No believer should just ‘fall’ into sin. The Word of God is sufficient to direct your life, your speech and your actions. The scriptures are complete and infallible. You don’t need anything else for wisdom and success in life outside the Word of God. This is the truth. If you ignore the Word of God, your quiet time with God, the preaching of God’s Word and prayer, then you are a wicked, rebellious man. You need to repent of sin and come to Jesus!

There is a great revelation we glean from the Book of Job: God does not expose and punish the wicked men immediately. This delay in action is based on God’s sovereign will and on His extraordinary patience. Men misinterpret God’s patience and take it as an approval of their sins. That is a deadly deception (Ecc 8:11-13). For the Bible is clear: ‘God is angry with the wicked every day…’ (Ps 7:11)

Please listen! This is what the Bible teaches: if you insist to go to hell, God will allow you to go there! If you love lies and deception, God may keep quiet! God does not force His light upon anyone who hates it and rejects it. If you insist in living in sexual immorality, God may not stop you. A venereal disease may slow you down, but God will not stop you. This is a wonder, this slow action of God in the presence of sin! Many believers are confused by it, but this is the truth! Accept it! God may not punish the wicked men immediately, sometime not in this life time! But trust God, their judgment is sure!

 

But for anyone who has this testimony, that God troubled you with His light until you surrendered to Him, blessed are you!

 

May God’s light shine on me!

May I never live carelessly on this earth!

May I never be ungrateful and ‘business-like’ with God’s gifts and His revelation!

May my conscience trouble me when I rebel against His light and may I repent of sin!

May I hate the powers of darkness and the wickedness in high places!

May foolishness, wickedness and rebellion be far from me!

 

May I see God’s wonders in the nature, wherever I go!

As I see the sun, the clouds, the moon and the stars, may I worship Jehovah Elohim day and night!

May the nature, the work of God’s hands and His gift to me make me a true lover of Jesus!

May the Word of God bring light to my understanding, to my memory and to my spiritual discernment! May I walk and work in the light of God!

May I love the Word of God!

May I love the light of God and come close to it!

May God’s presence fill and cover my home!

In Jesus name I pray,

Amen!

Wisdom rewards its owner!

by Silvia Leigh

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(from our women’s fellowship)
‘Blessed is the man (the woman) who finds wisdom!’ (PV 3:13)
Divine wisdom is not available on earth. You have to desire it; you need to seek for it like ‘for a hidden treasure’ buried in the ground. God has promised to always answer the prayer for wisdom. Once that wisdom comes, you shall know ‘every good path’ to take. You will not go astray into the trap of the wicked and violent men. You will not be deceived by the worldly religious women who kidnap the hearts of their victims thru seducing words and painted lips. Wisdom helps you to identify and ‘shun evil’. This life style becomes health to your body and strength to your soul. You will not die untimely death. Your paths shall be simple, straight and bright. Wisdom is profitable for all things in life and it is pleasant and sweet. Wisdom is protection. Wisdom is generous, kind to its neighbor. It never says: ‘Come back later; I’ll give it to you tomorrow…’ when you have it with you.
The path of wisdom is not easy. Fools mock wisdom, thinking that its labor or love is too costly. Loneliness is a price to pay if you want to be wise. You need to love the Word of God and its study needs time. Other women may go shopping when you stay at home reading your Bible and praying. Of course they will think that you are not ‘normal’. But the beauty of a life of wisdom is that it gets better as time goes by. Your worldly friends will panic as they get older. The wrinkles on their faces will torment them ignoring the truth that natural ‘beauty is fleeting’. But wisdom in the heart becomes the mysterious beauty of holiness. Your face becomes softer and your words become sweeter. No cosmetic surgery can compete with that!
Just in case you read these words and you mock them, I am sorry for you dear sister. You can tear this paper, but you cannot change the word of God and the blessings that come on them who chose to be wise. Wisdom starts like a seed planted in the heart by Him who loved you first. Then the Holy Spirit and your tears shall water this holy plantation. At last, when you think that God has forgotten your pains, wisdom shall bloom like the rose in the desert and shall become your harvest of righteousness. Your words will bring light into the darkness, healing into sick bodies, peace into confusion and freedom from bondage.
‘He (she) who wins souls is wise!’ (PV 11:30)

(in the picture, sister Tina praying during Sunday service)

Love lifted me

by Silvia Leigh

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When you look at the angry waves, right in the middle of the storms of life…remember this: these cannot overcome you; the hand of Jesus will never let go of you into the abyss…
No true child of God ever got drowned to hell on the road to heaven!
”Love lifted me, when nothing else could help, Love lifted me”

Jesus went in where the child was

by Silvia Leigh

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JESUS WENT IN WHERE THE CHILD WAS (Mk 5:40)
We read Mark 5. Three desperate cases: a demoniac man, a diseased woman and a dead child. No one could have helped, except Jesus. He saved ‘the Legion’ man and changed his location: from living in the cemetery, sleeping between tombs, crazy and wild, he suddenly became normal ready to go as an evangelist. His village people were not impressed with this mighty deliverance and ‘begged’ Jesus to go away and leave them alone. They loved money more than souls, swine more than revival. Jesus answered their prayer and went back across the lake.
Immediately He arrived to the shore, many people came around pushing and pressing; a lot of noise and activity, but no faith. Then a leader came, Jairus, who knelt at His feet begging. He had two requests: ‘Please Jesus, come to my house, my daughter is dying…’ and ‘please lay Your hands on her, and she shall live!’
Jesus and Jairus were going together towards his house when suddenly Jesus stopped and looked around to see who touched Him with faith. There was this woman, bleeding for twelve years. According to the law she is unclean (Lev 15:25). The word ‘unclean’ means polluted, dangerous and useless. Who can help a woman for whom the whole world has no use? Only Jesus! She interrupts but she is healed!
Jairus finally has Jesus by his side. Was ‘the wasted’ time too long- Jairus thought? Some people came from his house weeping: ‘your daughter is dead…no need the bother the Master…’ But the Master ignored the unbelievers and said: ‘Fear not! Only Believe!’ Whose report do you believe Jairus? Against all odds he chose to believe Jesus. He drove away fear! Fear 0%! Only Believe! Nothing more than faith! Nothing less than faith! 100% faith in Christ and in His Word!
They went home against the tide of doubters, of wicked mockers and heartless, common sense, unspiritual relatives. Then ‘He went were the child was’. Jesus knows exactly where your children are at any moment. He knows where they are during the day and during the night. Jesus shut the door against the unbelievers and alone with the parents and three of His disciples, He took the girl by the hand, gently, like the mother used to wake her up every morning. Simply said, death run away thru the window as the Shepherd carried His little lamb in His arms. ‘Little girl, arise!’ Time to walk! Time for dinner! Time to rejoice!
Bring your problems to the Cross!
By His stripes we are all healed!
May your faith increase above your problems as you gaze into the face of my Lord!
Nothing is impossible for God!
The same Jesus who delivered the Gadarene; the same Jesus who healed the dying woman; the same Jesus who raised the girl from the dead, this same Jesus commanded us to pray and believe for revival in this land! We fear not! We just believe! We shall not be put to shame, for Jesus is the same, yesterday, today and forever! This is the Word of God! Nothing else matters!