Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. I met with the One who Breathed Life into this new day, and everything about it is a Reflection of His Hand. The birds sound like they’re celebrating the morning, the squirrels look like they’re celebrating a feast, and my Heart is celebrating another Day to Serve. I don’t know exactly what He has Planned for me today, but I do know that after my Time with Him, I’m ready for whatever it is. As I looked out at the shadows on the field, it made me think about how the Light always casts a shadow on the things in its path, but the Light has no shadow of its own. Darkness can’t exist when there is Light. No doubt I’ll encounter some dark things today because the world is filled with darkness, but when I do, my Light will Shine so bright that I’ll cast a few shadows of my own, and darkness will flee from me…every time. Isn’t that the way you “fight the good fight” too?

It’s not easy to encounter the “darkness” sometimes, but that darkness can’t exist with my Light. Darkness is darkness, but it comes in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and I could be easily fooled if I didn’t know the Light so well. Sometimes the darkness shows itself boldly, and it’s easy to spot when it’s nearby, and sometimes the darkness is so subtle that I could get deceived if that were possible. Sometimes the darkness masquerades as Light, and it could win an Academy Award for its effort to fool…but when you Know the Light so well, it’s not possible to be fooled by darkness. Sometimes the darkness shows up in the form of dissension, and sometimes it shows up with the sweetest looking lure – the kind that Adam and Eve refused to Resist. The only way to walk through this dark world without being overtaken by the darkness is to shine the Light so bright that the darkness disappears and not even a shadow is left in its place. This is the Key to battling the war that takes place “in the heavenly realms.”

It’s sad to see so many people attempting to battle the darkness with their words when there’s a much Bigger way to Battle and only One Way to win. I’m pretty sure that darkness just laughs when it sees us trying to use our own words and our own intellect to win the War that can ONLY be won by the Spreading of the Light. When it’s time for words, ONLY the Words that were breathed by Him have any Power at all, and absolutely none of the others will repel the dark or produce Good fruit. But time and again people of Faith spit out insults and dim the Light instead of “spitting” out love and turning up the Light of Faith…the kind of Light that makes the darkness flee. I know that every time I say the name of Jesus, I can cause every demon in Hell to shudder, and I say it often each day. It might be a really dark world we live in, but the Light of the World will always outshine the darkness IF…and ONLY IF…we turn up the Light of our Faith and we Fight the darkness with the only thing it can’t withstand. This is the Key to willing the war.

Darkness nipped at my heels for so many years of my life, that is UNTIL I learned about the Light. One day, I invited the Light in, and I’ve never been the same again. My Light outshone the darkness that so desperately wanted to thwart the Plans God had for me…but darkness has no power in the Light. Darkness can no longer have power OR Victory over me because I belong to the Light! Today, I make the liar from Hell sorry that he ever messed with me as I Shed the Light of Jesus Christ on the dark world as much as I possibly can. This is the Key to Freedom.

I’m ready for this new day, and although I NEVER look forward to encountering the darkness here and there, I Know how to fend it off and snuff it out. Darkness, aka the Devil, has no power over me because I know the Light, aka Jesus Christ, so well. It could be that Brightest Lights (the biggest risk) deal with the darkness a little more than all the others…I’m not sure. But I DO know that the darkness would LOVE to dim my Light IF THAT WERE POSSIBLE, and I guess I can’t blame “it” for trying to take me down when I stand SO boldly for the Light.

Yes, it’s a battle…but I’ll always be Victorious because I focus a whole lot more on the Light than I do on shadows of darkness…and THAT’S the source of my Strength in this dark world.

How about you?