OUCH!!! Hey, Turn On A Light!

July 4, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Proverbs 4:18-19
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

 

     Have you ever gotten up in the middle of the night, walked a few steps, and then, “BAM” you slammed your toe into something? Not something that has been moved there recently, but something that had been there all along and you just misjudged the distance in the dark. If you’re anything like me, just remembering those times brings shivers down your spine. Now just for the sake of completely ruining your day, let’s imagine you finally get over the shock and pain of slamming your toe, you take a few more steps, and “BAM” you do it again, to the same toe. Can you imagine the pain? Sure, you can, and you do not like the thought of it, right?

 

     What caused the pain? Was it the furniture? NO! It had always been there. Was it your ability to walk? NO! You were walking just fine. (That is until you started hopping around holding your swollen toe.) So, what was it? It was simply your desire to try to make it to your destination without the light on. If you had turned on the light, the likelihood of you banging your toe would have been greatly reduced. Why, because with the light turned on you can clearly see everything around you.

 

     A lost person lives this way daily. They crash into one sin after another. All because they refuse to allow the light of God’s Word to shine in their life.

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

     Revelations 21 talks of never needing the sun in heaven because Jesus will be the light there. Those who are saved shall walk in that light. The good news for the saved is that we can walk in that light today. Psalm 119:105 says, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” Jesus is the light of the world. If you will but trust Him and His Word, he will keep you from falling into the darkness of sin.

 

How has the light of God’s Word helped you this week?

 

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  July 4, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
2 Chronicles 11-13 / Psalm 4
Proverbs 4 / Matthew 6

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
2 Chron. 28-30 / Acts 9:1-19