In the following context you will read a humorous but kinda of embarrassing story. (Yes it is about me and no... you better not laugh) So about a week ago I was pulling an outfit out of my closet to wear the next day. And as soon as I pulled out a pair of jeans and I started to walk away, my whole closet rack collapsed. Well talk about a mess that nobody ever should want to clean up! All I could do is turn around and just hope that a bunch of shoes just fell, but nope of course not. So I just stared at my disaster of a closet, which I tediously keep clean 24/7, and yell to my parents that the loud noise was just my whole closet falling through. My dad comes upstairs to check the disaster and laughs by saying " And you always ask for more clothes." Of course that would make any girl mad, and in my defense some of those clothes are my sisters old ones. But anyways! I was stressing because it was getting late plus it was a school night and I still had several things to do including joyful homework. So I looked at the closet and just took a big old sigh and went in and started to manage the rubble. For that night all of my clothes had to sit in piles on my floor until the rack could be fixed. I could sit there all night to fix it (which is what my cleaning disorder was telling me to do). But the one big thing that came out of it all was that, I never saw it coming just like we never know when we are gonna trip up. That night I just went to bed and turned off the lights to masked the huge mess in my room. And in the dark you cant see the mess, which was nice to pretend that it never happened. But have you ever tried to mask up a huge disaster in your life? I know I have (not my closet ordeal) and it ended up coming to the surface and breaking through and being worse than it was in the beginning. Right now I want you to think about light vs. dark. What can you do in the light that you cant do in the dark? But what can you do in the dark that you cant do in the light? In the light you can see everything. You can drive better, play sports, exercise, have a picnic or party, and anything else you do in your everyday lives that you don't realize we need Gods natural light for. Now if you add the night and its darkness to all of those things, you can still do them but you wont be able to see them as well or take part in it as well as you could if it was during the day. When I was laying in my bed I told myself "Now Kaitlyn, you have to remember that your whole wardrobe is on your floor so you have to be extra cautious when getting up tomorrow or you are going to be tumbling all over your clothes and it probably wont feel to pleasant with metal hangers." I was at risk for hurting myself, on my fashionable clothes, because I would be walking in the dark in the morning. I mean, I could still see my room but the darkness would impair my ability to see as clear as I would with all of the lights on. Sadly we cant make our disasters and stresses go away by turning the lights off on them and going to sleep. Because they will be there just like my clothes were still all over my floor. And they wont go away until you do something about it. I am warning you to not walk in the darkness physically and mentally. Physically because if you fall, well dang you don't know what your falling on! But if you fall mentally in the dark you will never know how far you have truly fallen from God. If you fall in the dark then how will you ever know which way is out? The thing is, you will never know. If I had gotten up and started walking all around my room without turning the lights on, my room would be a lot messier than just having clothes on the ground and I would never know what I hit until I turned on the lights. So think about this for the week, when you chose to walk in the darkness that the devil provides you will not be able to see the stress, evil, sin, or destruction laying around you. It will be at your feet waiting for you to walk right into its trap. And once your trapped you wont know which way is up and which way is down. This week I want to ask you to do a little exercise. Turn of all of the lights in one of the rooms in your house so it is dark, close your eyes, and spin around a couple times and walk around. Count how many things you run into, but please don't hurt yourself. And take that as a reminder of how easy it is to mask our disasters and how easy it is for them to end up hurting us again. The destruction in our lives can be caused by minuet things. Little did i know... my closet rack fell because it was missing a screw and the wood was cracking. If I would of payed close attention I would of prevented that disaster from taking its course. So look closely to your life. Are you walking into the dark where the sins lie lives knifes at your feet?
Word of the Day: "And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but are yourself lost or destroyed?"
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