It was early morning and wouldn’t begin to get light for another hour. The street I was driving on didn’t have any streetlights, so it was quite dark outside. Suddenly, up ahead I saw a white light close to the ground, and it was bobbing up and down and sometimes moving sideways. It wasn’t a steady light you might see on the front of a bicycle, and it wasn’t blinking.
As I drove closer to this strange light, sometimes it would disappear for just a few seconds, but then it would be there again, bobbing up and down. It was a mystery.
Soon I was close enough to see a lady walking a big, black dog on a leash, and then I discovered what the strange, bobbing light was. The lady had trained her dog to carry a flashlight in his mouth to light the way as they took their early morning walk. And when the dog would turn his head as he walked ahead of her, that bobbing beam of light seemed to turn off for a few seconds. The mystery of the bobbing light was solved.
It was a good way for the lady and her dog to light the sidewalk ahead in the darkness. Anyone who is a true believer in the Lord Jesus as his or her Saviour needs a light for the pathway in this dark, evil world. The Bible, God’s Word, tells us how we can have the necessary light so that we don’t stumble and fall. “Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105105NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105)). Reading and following the instructions that God has written is the best way to light our path. He said, “I am the light of the world: he that [follows] Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life” (John 8:1212Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12)).
Do you have the “light of life” to light your next step?
ML-01/17/2010