Follow the Light

The sun had already cast long shadows and darkness was beginning to take over the land when we realized one of the fillies was not with the herd. Bob drove around the field on the tractor and found she was on the hill side outside of the fence. She had found the fence down and had stuck her head through because the grass IS greener on the other side of the fence.

I grabbed the lead rope and we got into the truck to get as close to her as possible by road. We saw her up the hill and just outside of the fence. I insisted that I could get her and got out of the truck to climb up the steep hillside to where she was standing. I had just enough light that I could see the deer trail leading up through the thick brush and steep hill side.

It was tough going. I half crawled up the hill grabbing onto small trees to both pull myself up and keep from falling backward. Thorn's from wild roses grabbed at my clothing and caught my bare skin a couple of times. But I was able to slowly make my way up the hill to where Masissah was standing. She didn't wait for me to catch her. She bolted back through the fence and gaited to the rest of the herd where she walked over to the bale of hay. I found her there innocently eating hay like she had been there all the time.

I instructed Bob to unplug the fence and I walked a stretch of it putting wire back on the insulators to hopefully keep them in the field and out of danger. It was now completely dark. I was across the field from the house. I did not have to make my way back down the same hill. I climbed through the fence and walked toward home.

The night was quiet and peaceful. The only sounds I could hear was the sound of my feet as I walked across the field toward the comfort of home. Despite the darkness that surrounded me, I could see enough in front of me that I knew where to step to keep my footing. I had already noticed the lights at the house shinning through the darkness. It seemed they were there to guide me home.

Then I started thinking about the true light of the world, Jesus Christ, and how he lights our path as we head toward our home in heaven. Behind me was darkness and the hill I had just climbed. It was steep and had I not been careful I could have fallen and landed at the bottom. I had some light then but what if I had turned around and decided to take a chance on going back down that hill away from the light.

Isn't that what we do when we take our own path and decide we know best. Instead of following the light, we take the path where danger lurks at every turn. We take one step after another until we are on that hillside in the dark and not being able to see we fall. But even then Jesus Christ is there to save us. Even then we can cry out to him and tell him we need him. We need his light.

In this life we are walking in darkness if we try to live as if there is no God. Without Christ the world in a scary place. In our ignorance we say to ourselves, I can do it myself. I don't need Christ to save me. I am too smart to fall for that fairy tale.

Have you ever tried to put something together and not read the instructions. We usually laugh and say that when all else fails we will read the instructions. And usually we do find that we have to get the instructions and read them.

I have decided I want mail delivery out on our route. I get some mail addressed to my home address instead of my P O Box and sometimes it is a letter I would have like to receive or needed to have. So I bought a mail box. I thought I was surely smart enough to put the mail box together. Yes, some assemble was required. I put some of it together and found some things about it that I couldn't decide how it needed to be done. So yep, I got out the instructions.

We do that every day when we don't read God's instruction book, the Bible.

May your paths always be lite by God's perfect light and may you always be guided by the light that leads you home to Jesus.

And may God bless and keep you in his loving care.

Regards,

Mary

Look deep into my heart, God, and find out everything I am thinking. don't let me follow evil ways, but lead me in the way that time has proven true.

Psalms 139: 23-24

For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.

Proverbs 1: 32-33