Shadows

So, I'm back. You may or may not have noticed that I didn't blog last week. I was tired and busy and didn't really feel like it. Today, those things still apply, but I have something I wanted to tell you about.

Mr Pastor's sermon last night was about Joseph's brothers returning to Egypt during the famine. To be honest, I wasn't really listening to much of it because my brain was sleepy and I wanted KFC (other fast food chicken shops may be available). But the bit that did stick out to me was this:

"Events from your past can cast long shadows."

This I know to be true. Things that have happened to you or things you have done, can be hard to shake off. I am currently peering around in some twenty-year-long shadows, trying to find my way back into the light. BUT:

"God is a light that shines into the darkness. The darkness is as light to Him."

He has come to set us free from the shadows. Be they guilt or pain or fear, He can bring His light to them and heal them. And in His Spirit, He has set His light in us. A burning candle cannot be in shadow.

By His grace:

We need not cower in the shadows any more,

but can step out into the light of the Everlasting Son.