Why do we walk in darkness?

This is my first ever attempt at a blog so please just bare with me for a little bit. So I was at my church last night (Christmas Eve) and the pastor Jim Zippay was talking about the light. The title of the message was celebrate in the light. It made me think of a few things and I thought I would share them with you.

First of all what is this darkness we live in? Why do we still live in it when we know the light. The darkness we live in is sin. It can be because of many things: maybe we don't want to give up all the areas of our life up to Christ, maybe you don't want to be "embarrassed" for being a Christian because its not the "cool" thing to do. Im guilty as charged for both of those. I have been there and done that and maybe you have too. Is it because we do want to give up the lifestyle we are living? Who knows, with each person it is different.

"This is the verdict: Light has come to the world, but men loved darkness instead of the light because there deeds are evil" John 3:19

Think of it this way. How many of you have tried getting changed in the dark before? Like when your at a friends house and they are still sleeping and you don't want to wake them up. And then we walk out of the room and go downstairs and realize your shirt is on inside out. Maybe its just me but its happened to me before. See we live in the dark sometimes. When we are in the dark we think we are living one way, but when we see the light it exposes whats really inside us. Like the inside of our shirt. The light exposes our weakness and sinful desire. Do we really want to live like that and walk around with our shirts on inside out?

Now lets talk about the light. Who is this light and what is it?

"When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light in his life."" John 8:12

Jesus is the light of the world. He shines for all to see. Now see when we become believers he puts this light inside of us for the whole world to see in our daily actions. Others can see this light in us in the way we treat people, in the way we serve, in the way we love ect.

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"[a]made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6

See he gave us the ability to see him and to shine for him. Which leads me to my next point. Why do we so many times not shine for him. Are we like that light bulb in the corner of the basement that we are to lazy to change after it gets burned out? Do we just try to push it aside and ignore it as if nothing happened. But then we realize our view gets a little dimmer with that light out. We can't see as well as we would if we would have changed it. See we can't see His face as well as we would if we didn't have that darkness (sin) there.

A lot of times we hide our light under a buschle. We need to let it shine. Others are watching the way we live. We need to be more aware of that. Is your light shining? Or do you need to change your light bulb?Thanks for sticking with me. I just thought I would share with you what God was putting on my heart. Have a good one.