How
to Penetrate the Darkness
Many people are standing alone in the dark. Even if and
when others are there with us, we can't see, it's dark. They do not
know how to get out into the light. Not only Sinners, but Saint's
also. Many Christians who have ceased to
grow are in this state.
We all have a common enemy, Satan: He's here to kill you. Make no mistake-He's real and He is not your Friend.
Everything we hear or see is filtered thru the perceptions =(Ability to discern) of life in each individual. We understand life by the experiences we've had in the past. Example= Those that have always lived a certain way ,( filthy talking or cursing), this is a way of life for them. They cannot understand that this is wrong thinking. So When someone tells them "Hey don't do that", instead of thinking about how they sound to others they immediately take offence and justify themselves.
This Automatically will block their ears, because increased knowlegde is based on faith. When we hear something that is strange to us it's human nature to reject it.
So Knowledge must be taught at their level, so it can be understood by them.We must first determine where they are at in their knowledge level. This means spending time with them, Fellowship. Then we must Show them with our lives that we live in front of them.
As they see us, how we speak, how we act-most people are going to be deliberately looking for evil in us. This is a natural thing because human nature cannot see wrong in themselves, but it is so easy to see it in others.
We cannot teach a person that believes he's right. The ground must be sofened with Prayer & Love. This is the only way to penetrate the darkness.
People
will automatically go with the way they are used to because it is
familiar ground. We must first go into the Dark, let the light of
God shine & then they will follow us out into the light.
1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, (Jesus) and declare
unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Perception=Natural ability to see into a situation or Person
1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
Fellowship=An intimate Knowledge/Learning the ways of each person in order to help one another.
Darkness
is no part of God ,Jesus,Holy Spirit.
Darkness means no Knowledge of or understanding.
1
John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, (in his
knowledge & understanding) as he is in
the light, (He has all Knowledge &
understanding & longs to share with us) we have
fellowship one with another, (if we have
Light(Knowledge) we will automatically love our brother more than
we do ourself) and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son
cleanseth us from all sin. (This will cleanse us.)
John
1:3-5
Jeremiah 4:3
I John 2:5-11
Psalms 56:13
Psalms 89:15
Isaiah 59:9& 10
John 8:12
John 11:9 & 10
John 12:35
by
Dee Owens
Devotional # 6 -4/06/02