Stay Lit!

After Thanksgiving Day, something magical seems to happen.  No, it is not empty stores on Black Friday, nor an early heavy snowfall in Southern California.  It is houses and businesses lighting up their buildings with displays of brilliant and colorful lights.  Of course, there are some entire neighborhoods that start setting up their Christmas lights after Labor Day.  These are the neighborhoods going all out with decorations, synchronized music, and millions of LED lights.  Not only can you spot their radiance from miles away, you can probably see the “glow” from space.

Christmas comes during the cold, dark month of December, so it is wonderful to decorate with all sorts of lights, lighting up the darkness with brightness and brilliance.  But what makes it magical is that Christmas lights can trigger the “feel good” chemical in the brain called dopamine.  Medical and scientific studies tell us when released, this chemical brings about pleasure and feeling of happiness.

For Christians, Christmas lights have a much deeper meaning.  They represent Jesus as the “Light of the world” (John 8:12) in which He brings people out of darkness into His marvelous light (1 Peter 2:9).  They remind us of the miracle of the virgin birth of God becoming flesh and living among us, for the purpose of dying for our sins.  Christmas lights also shine as powerful symbols of love, joy, peace, and hope that illuminates the soul during the month of December.

Now imagine taking this same wonderful, radiant Christmas bliss into the entire new year.  Jesus declared, I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life (John 8:12).  When you consistently live out your life in His light, everything in a dark and dismal lifestyle disappears.  With His light, you have and continually possess the life of God.  The Greek Lexicon says that the word for life is zoe, which expresses a life of all of the highest and best which Christ is, and then gives to us.  It is the “highest blessedness” you can have.

This beyond extraordinary life is possible if you stay in His light.  However, it will not come without a fight.  The thief cannot stand for you to live a life of blessing and will do everything he can to draw you into darkness.  The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy, but Jesus came that you may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance, to the full, till it overflows (John 10:10 AMPC).

Realize you have the very light of our Lord shining through you because of your union with Him. Your mission is to live as children flooded with His revelation-light! (Ephesians 5:8 TPT).  Therefore, if you want to enjoy the light of life that darkness can’t overtake (John 1:5) and experience a superabundant life that glows all year –

STAY LIT!