Everyday I talk to people that are concerned about their kids. It seems like this generation is lost in drugs, lost in perversions, lost in panics and the deceptions of this world. The hardest thing to do is to watch your kids make bad decisions and suffer for it. Most of us would rather suffer ourselves than to see our kids suffer. How can we get through to this generation? How can we help our kids come to know the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ?
The Bible says that darkness has covered the people. What darkness has covered this generation? The darkness of depression, the darkness of famine, the darkness of loneliness, anxiety, and panic, the fear of being alone. The darkness of addiction and calamity. The darkness of poverty and debt, the darkness of anger and violence. Darkness has covered the face of the earth.
Isaiah 60:1Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon you.
2For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
3And the Gentiles shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
The answer to the darkness is for YOU to RISE and SHINE! How do you do this? It happens when you allow the glory of the Lord to rise upon you! God wants to cloth you with His glory, by clothing you with His Spirit! Jesus is the light and in him there is no darkness. John said the light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it. That depression cannot overcome the light of Jesus shining in your life. That addiction cannot overcome the light of Jesus that breaks every chain. That panic and fear cannot overcome the light, for the glory of the LORD has risen.
Isaiah 60:4Lift up your eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to you: your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
When God's glory rises in your life that depression is going to flee, that darkness is going to flee, the Bible says people will come to the brightness of your rising! Look at verse four, even your sons and your daughters will come from afar. When you kids see you rise up, it will draw them to Jesus. When your kids see the glory of the Lord risen in your life, it will draw them to you, and to the Lord. People don't like to be preached at, but they cannot help but to be drawn to the person who has risen above the darkness of this world and is shining with the glory of the Lord.
We cannot rise and shine on our own. This only happens when the glory of the Lord is risen upon us. Are you ready to rise and shine? It says that gross darkness has covered the people. Alot of the sin we are are seeing in people today is just that, completely gross, and when the light rises in you it exposes that which is gross. It illuminates and helps people to see the truth. Ask God today for the glory of the Lord to rise upon your life.
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