My last attempt to blog was on October 21st. You might notice that I never posted a blog on that day, which is due to the fact that it was a failed attempt. But, here I go again...

As I was preparing a sermon for my Homiletics class this week, I came across an illustration that I really like.

One evening a speaker who was visiting the United States wanted to make a telephone call. He entered a phone booth, but found it to be different from those in his own country. It was beginning to get dark, so he had difficulty finding the number in the directory. He noticed that here was a light in the ceiling, but he didn’t know how to turn it on. As he tried again to find the number in the fading twilight, passersby noted his plight and said, “Sir, if you want to turn the light on, you have to shut the door.” To the visitor’s amazement and satisfaction, when he closed the door, the booth was filled with light. He soon located the number and completed the call.

This is a simple story that perfectly illustrates our life. Sometimes we don’t shut the door to darkness, to evil, to sin, completely, and it drowns out the light of Christ. If we want to live in the light and be filled with light, the door to darkness cannot be partially open, but only completely shut. My question in this is what kind of darkness, or sin, do you let in your life? How can you shut the door completely and only allow the light of Christ in your life? It’s a daily process, but the door must remain shut in order to constantly walk with Christ in the light.

1 John 1:5-7: “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from sin.”

Until next time I get around to blogging...

Becky Mae