It was a dark and stormy night when the skies decided to throw an epic tantrum, and the power grid surrendered with a flicker, leaving your home in darkness. It is so dark that you cannot find your way around your own home. Your first thought is “Where did I put my flashlight?” Finally, you find your flashlight, only to discover that your flashlight has dead batteries. Ugh!
With a sigh of resignation, you search for fresh batteries, a task made comically challenging by sharp corners to the furniture inside your dark house and the elements conspiring outside. Raindrops beat down upon the windows as you fumble through drawers, knocking over forgotten treasures.
This story is not just an imagined story to me. I’ve been there and I’m guessing you have too.
This story should remind us of the words,
“Your word is a lamp to my feet a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105).
We live in a world of darkness. All around us are the storms of life that cause that darkness. What we need more than anything is a light to show the way. It is to that point that the psalmist tells us of our “flashlight,” our source of light.
Like one who stumbles in a dark house, hunting for that light source, the psalmist prays, “Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law… Do not hide Your commandments from me.”(Psalms 119:18-19.).
Through reading God’s Word daily, we have that light ready to guide us through the dark nights.
Lonnie Davis