There's Always a Light in the House

Today I am intrigued with an Old Testament story with which most are familar. Jacob and his family had been relocated to Egypt due a great famine. As the story goes Jacob died, Joseph died, Pharoah died, and we are told that there arose another Pharoah. This Pharoah saw the Israelites as a way to cheap, no slave, labor. You know the story, over time there was extreme hard times for these people and they cried out to their God for deliverance...and along came Moses, after his visit with the burning bush.

Moses and his brother Aaron visited Pharoah, and this resulted in a series of plagues on the land. There were 10 of these plagues in all, intended to get Pharoah's attention, and cause him to release the children of Israel. It is the ninth plague that catches my attention today. It was the plague of darkness. For 3 days darkness enveloped the land of Egypt, it was so dark that it was a darkness that could "be felt." Can you imagine it being so dark that striking a match, flipping the light switch, or nothing else could penetrate it?? The Egyptians lived in this incredible darkness...yet there is a note in the story that I can't overlook. Exodus 11:23 says, "No one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days. YET ALL THE ISRAELITES HAD LIGHT IN THE PLACES WHERE THEY LIVED." Incredible, but while all their known world was shrouded in complete, devastating darkness, they had light in their homes!!!

There is darkness about us today, not literal of course, but darkness just the same. There is a darkness of war, depression (how many commericals do you see daily for anti-depressant medications?), distrust, disease, malady, and evil in the streets. In many ways it appears to be a darkness that prevades all areas of life and can cause us to wonder if there is any hope. That is the position that these people were in...yet we are told that IN THEIR HOMES, the places where they lived, there was light!!! It was a Divine provision and it sustained them. It does not appear that this light was a lamp, but an absence of the darkness on the outside.

In the midst of darkness, there is is light where I live!!! It is a light of faith, confidence, calmness, and assurance. It is a light of love, compassion, caring, and belief there is nothing that can come our way that can extinguish the beautiful light of God's day!

Is the light on where you live? No matter if you are sick with disease, aching in pain, depressed with family situations, worried over the economy, or whatever; there is a provision! The real light switch is just an humble prayer away!!!! The way you say it is up to you.