Refuse the dark.
Fight against the dim.
Resist to blow out the match.
Keep the light shining into the darkness.
Keep the torch burning, thrice if you have to.
Never surrender.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:5
Someone shared a great thought with me this other day, and I thought I’d pass it along.
Maybe it will be one you’ll come back to throughout the week…
If we, as Christians, are the light, and we have the Light shining through us, then, we are much like a flashlight shining into a darkened place.
In a darkened space where there is no other light, when you are holding the flashlight,
You can see the light.
But you can also see the darkness all around you.
All of it.
When you are holding the light, you don’t see the light as brightly as when you are standing in front of the light.
When you’re standing in front of the light, it can almost blind you,
Nothing is hidden.
So, keep shining even when it feels the darkness is crowding in around you.
The Light within you cannot be snuffed out unless you turn it out.
The Light within you will shine brightly no matter who or what attempts to destroy it.
The Light within you is eternal and has eternal impact on all who see it.
Keep shining the light even when all you see is utter darkness with the tiniest light.
Keep shining.
Be the Light to a darkened world.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
John 1:4-5 NKJV
In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
John 1:4-5 NIV
No matter where you are in the climb, keep climbing.
If you’re just starting out, keep climbing.
If you’re half way there, keep climbing.
If you’ve reached the top, either climb your way down and back up again,
Or find another mountain to conquer.
Just keep climbing and never give up.
Do not remember the former things,
Isaiah 43:18
Nor consider the things of old.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
Proverbs 3:5-6
And lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
Grief is like the boulder hopping moments of life.
To succeed in getting to the sunset, you’ve got to keep moving.
To achieve the goal of the setting horizon, you’ve got to keep taking the jump.
To get past the hardest points, one foot must stay in front of the other.
Even if you slip. Even if you stumble.
Keep going forward. Keep going beyond.
You’ll get there.
Eventually.
And you’ll be so glad you did.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way.
Psalm 37:23-24
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand.
[…a little reblog from a writing quite a while ago. Hope it blesses you…]
Sometimes, when it rains, it pours… Yesterday, I talked to a gentleman whose mom passed away last week. Just a few days prior to this news, his wife…
When It Rains, It Pours
I’ve heard people brag about all their achievements and success.
I’ve watched as they receive the awards, the accolades and applause.
And there have been tiny moments when I want to raise my feathers higher and proclaim.
And then, I take a step back and remember to wait for the ovation.
I remember to pause and let someone else sing my praise.
It’s so much better when the cheers come from another’s lips rather than your own.
It’s so much more rewarding when the hand claps come from the crowd rather than your own hand to your back.
Especially, when your enemies get to hear it loud and clear.
So, keep on keepin’ on.
Stay the course.
Finish the race.
And run it well.
When it’s a worthy cause, and you’re a well placed runner,
Your praise will arise.
And you won’t have to say a thing.
Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing,
Proverbs 31:30-31
But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Your journey may not look like someone else’s, and it may feel you’re all alone.
Just keep walking.
Your path may seem hard and unachievable, with a rocky, uneven, treacherous terrain.
But just keep walking.
Your heart may be racing; your legs may be failing, and you may be breathless.
But just keep walking.
Keep walking toward your goal.
Keep walking toward your joy, your peace.
Keep walking toward your brighter tomorrow.
Never return to the abuse, the turmoil, the destruction.
Run away from the toxic attempts to reclaim your soul.
Run away from the confusion and dysfunction.
Run away from the vicious lies and conceit that thirst for your demise.
Never look back to the broken shards of those shattered dreams.
The you who was there is no more.
The you who was then can never be again.
Those expectations, desires and demands can’t fit you anymore.
You’d be as a butterfly crumbling her wings to fit back in the cocoon .
Your heart would be as the bird clipping her flight to crawl back inside the shell.
Your mind would become as the prisoner who once tasted freedom then slammed the prison door and became insane.
Just keep walking toward your hope that has become today.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord…
Jeremiah 29:11-14
No matter where you are on the trail, keep walking.
No matter how you feel, keep walking.
No matter who’s around, keep walking.
Just keep moving, keep going forward.
You can do this. You can make it.
Don’t worry about finishing first or finishing best.
Those things come in time.
Sometimes, you just need to focus on finishing.
Do it. And you’ll be glad you did.
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
Philippians 3:7-8
For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
Philippians 3:20-21
All of us go through the struggle of feeling less than.
Less that perfect.
Less than amazing.
Less than good.
Less than we should be.
Never let those moments of low convince you to quit.
Never let those minutes of doubt persuade you to quit.
It’s natural. We’ve all been there.
But the great heroes in this world never let the failure consume them.
The courageous leaders we see never let the darkness overtake without lighting a match.
So, strike that wood. Let it spark.
And even if you have to blow in the embers,
Let the flame burn.
And keep standing taller.
You’ll eventually get there.
You can do this!
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:12-14
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