Read Psalm 14:1
Having a five year old, one is taking their own life in their hands to walk around in the dark. From stepping on a horse, car, dinosaur to any of the other of a million toys that he just happened to forget to pick up, you walk at your own risk. It was just the other night that T-rex was flattened, and I was angered because I was the one flattening him under my bare foot. It was vary painful, and it took all of my self control to keep from waking the neighborhood with screams of anguish.
The same is true of our spiritual walk. You take your life in your own hands when you walk in the darkness of false ideas. When you walk in His light, you place yourself in the sure hand of God.
Have you ever thought what it would be like if we didn't have faith in God but accepted instead the God-denying theory of evolution? Suppose we had an atheistic view of life. Cornell University biologist William Provine declared in a public debate that if you’re a consistent Darwinian, you realize there is no life after death, no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning for our existence and no free will. Life would be empty.
Thankfully, we have another view. We can open our hearts and minds to have faith in God as He has revealed Himself through Jesus Christ. We can have forgiveness of sin through His death on a cross. This not only assures us of a blessed eternity, it also fills our here-and-now experiences with measureless blessings of meaning and hope. We can know by the indwelling of His Spirit that Jesus’ words were true in John 8:12, “I am the light of the world, He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
As we move along on our earthly journey, there is no fear of stepping on the “toys” in the dark because we can walk confidently in the light of Jesus Christ.
"God's first creature, which was light."
Francis Bacon
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