One of the biggest misconceptions in the world is the belief that “there is plenty of time for someone to get right with God.” So most people put it off and put it off and put it off until, in many cases, “it is too late.” Part of the reason so many put off this “act of getting right with God” is because they love the darkness more than they love the light. People enjoy living in their darkness, living in their sins, doing the lustful things that they are doing more than they want to come to the light.
“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him. There is no judgment against anyone who believes in him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants” (John 3:16-21 NLT).
God loved us so much that he sent forth his son to save anyone who would leave the darkness and come to the light. Because there is this kind of “euphoric high” associated with the darkness, many continue trying to satisfy their sinful flesh nature much like an addict seeking to satisfy that “relentless itch.” The “itch” that we speak of here is that desire to obtain the “same level of sinful pleasure” or in the case of the addict, the “same level of intoxication” from their first experience with the darkness. They stay in the darkness, sinking further and further into the abyss, seeking to obtain the unobtainable. But there is a price associated with being in the darkness.
“For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).
Here is the interesting thing about being in the darkness, you can choose to stay in the darkness, living in the pleasures associated with being there, but you cannot choose the consequences. The consequence, the payment, and/or the wage that is earned for playing in the darkness is “death.”
“But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame” (Romans 10:8-11 ESV).
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you can be freed from the allure and the addiction of the darkness. You need only “speak the word and believe” in order to come to the light.
“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:9-11 ESV). “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12 ESV). “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
Jesus is the way. Jesus is the truth. Jesus is the life. Jesus is the door, the way to leave the darkness. So, before you take your last, make that confession unto salvation and come to the light. If you continue to wait, if you continue to wait for tomorrow, it could be too late. Do not wait for tomorrow.
May our inspirational message abundantly bless you and greatly inform you. We pray that you will be the better for having read it. If blessed by this message, please share so that others may be blessed as well. Amen.
Enjoy your blessings. - KW
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