To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. (Psalm 139:12)
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11 Bible Verses about Light And Darkness. Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Verse Concepts. His Name Is The Lord What Else God Created Sun Moon And Stars Before God Colors, Black Dawn Constellations Orion Creation, Origin Of. Bible verses about Light Exposes Darkness. John 3:19-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, which shines ever brighter until the full light of day. (Proverbs 4:18)
Is there an event in your life, a trauma or a loss that is trying to block the light from shining for you? Has a shadow overwhelmed you? Does it feel like your day has turned to perpetual night?
Scripture tells us that night can be as bright as day, that even in the toughest times, we can carry on because there is a light that cannot be extinguished.
When we witnessed the total eclipse of the sun last August, we were amazed at how bright the world still was even when the moon completely covered the sun. What a phenomenon! We viewed Pluto and the stars in the middle of the morning. But more amazing was the fact that the light was still bright enough around us to see virtually everything. The brightness of the sun cannot fully be eclipsed.
We find a lesson here for us: when our lives are overwhelmed by sorrow and grief, the light of God cannot be fully overcome. We can be struck with troubles, heaviness, and darkness, but His light cannot be put out. We will have all the light that we need to see by and to continue to live by.
Are you struck with heartache today, almost overwhelmed and hardly able to function under the weight of the burden you carry? Ask God to allow you the grace to have just enough light to see by today. And as this trial unfolds, moment by moment, you can trust in His unfailing love. Pray with us…
Father,
I thank You that You are never overcome by darkness. Even the darkest night is as bright as the brightest day to You. Thank You that as I walk with You, learning to walk in Your ways, seeking Your divine presence in my life moment by moment, this darkness I presently feel will dissipate, and the night around me will be like day once again.
Thank You that You promise me that I will shine again. As You transform my life and deliver me from these present challenges that seek to overwhelm and destroy me, rather than being overwhelmed and destroyed, these challenges will be the making of me. I will become stronger and a brighter light for Your glory.
Wash me clean of all darkness. Take me into the light of Your glorious presence and radiate all darkness out of my being in Jesus’ Name. I thank You for the sacrifice of Your dear Son, Jesus, who bled and died to give me an opportunity to be forgiven and cleansed.
I trust in the Holy blood and water that gushed forth from the sacred, broken heart of Jesus to flood over me and to break this cycle of darkness plaguing my life today. I stand beneath that flow, bowing in worship for Your generous, glorious love for me.
In Jesus’ Name
Amen
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ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulIn the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulA Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulAt the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulTherefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulDo not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness?
Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”. ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulMy little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.
But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him. ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulBut, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit.
For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not HelpfulBesides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep.
For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
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