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"The Lord is my light and my salvation --whom shall I fear?" - Psalms 27:1 NIV
Light symbolizes God in many ways. God lights our way when we are lost and alone. He shines his light down on us and turns our sorrows and loneliness into joy. Just as light warms us, God's love warms our very soul. His light has conquered darkness since the beginning and it will forever more shine.
God created man, but we sinned and as a consequence, we are punished to death and separation from God. But because of God's grace and love, he brought himself down into the mere, powerless form of a man, with our flesh, and bone, but not spirit. Only a pure and sinless man can take the place of the sinful in hell. And no one is sinless and faultless but God Himself.
That is why on a calm and quiet night in Bethlehem, God sent down the greatest light of all in the form of a little baby. The world was in darkness when that baby, our Lord Jesus Christ, was sent to death on the cross. He died the death of a sinner not because he sinned, but because he was the only pure and sinless man to walk the earth. He took our place in hell so that we could be with him in heaven. But then three days later, light shone on earth and in the heavens like it had never shone before. Jesus had conquered death! Not only his own death, but also the death of everyone. That is, anyone who will accept him as their Lord and personal Savior.
I have grown up in a loving Christian family for as long as I have lived. And I continually thank God for this blessing that he has given me even before I was old enough to comprehend life itself. Because of my parents and their up bringing, God had always been a major part of my life. In the days where I was afraid of the dark, my mom would tell me to sing "Jesus Loves Me" and I would be able to walk boldly into a dark room because I fully believed with child-like faith that Jesus loved Me and was with me in that dark room. When growing up, God was, well, God to me. If asked what was my religion, I would say I didn't have one. I had never thought of God as a religion. He was my Friend and Comforter. Someone who I went to when I was afraid and when I was thankful and happy. But there was still one thing missing in my relationship with God. I had the trust, the faith that he was there, and his love. But I had also believed that I was going to heaven because of it. Not until I started reading devotions in the fourth grade had I begun to realize God's gift to me. Pride struck when I realized that being a Christian wasn't just going to church and believing Him. Because I had gone through all those years in Sunday school, I had thought that I was too old to have only found out then. I had believed my whole life that I was a Christian, only to be told now that I really wasn't because I hadn't taken that step.
But God persisted in the form of my devotional, my Sunday school teachers, and in sermons. He finally broke through my stubbornness and I dropped my pride. I prayed the prayer instructed in the devotion. God not only loved me, but he sent down his only son, Jesus to die for me. I deserved death, but by his grace, he gave me life, eternal life with Him. My sins scarred my soul, and when Christ died on the cross and rose again, he cleansed those sins so that I could be with Him when I leave this earthly body. It was then that I had finally accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and personal Savior and I could have an even greater relationship with God than I had had before. I now have full assurance that God will always shine his light on me to help me grow and I pray that I will grow brighter as his child and follower.
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