Bob Hamp

God trades in far different currency than we think.  He needs nothing from us but desires a great deal for us.  Becaue He will get His plan finished with or without us, He does not need us to do something for Him, but because He is the perfect Father He wants us to do everything with Him.  His currency is far more relationship and making us like Him, than it is unmet expectations and frustration. 

Jesus makes an interesting compare and contrast statement in John Chapter 3.  He says something like this…”I did not come into the world to judge it…the world is already in the state it is in…I came to be light in darkness.” 

He then moves from talking about the world to talking about you and I. 

“Those who do evil,” He says, “hate the light because the they do not want to be exposed.  But those who do the truth come to the light so that what comes out of them would come from God.”  (my translation).

Notice when Jesus talks about the opposite of evil in the lives of men, He does not say that good is the opposite of evil.  He says that truth is the opposite of evil.  Again, our knowledge of good and evil has always been the problem, not the solution.  Jesus says the there is only One who is good.  In the human experience the opposite of evil, is our willingness to come to the Light.  Light that comes from God, does not just reveal, it transforms. 

Step into the light, He shows us what is not Him, so that from that day forward what issues forth from our lives comes from Him in us, not from us-trying-to-impress-Him.  Truth, real, soul-bearing truth can be difficult, but all it really does is reveals the difficulty we are already living in so we can be freed from it.

Step into the light.  C’mon in, don’t be afraid.