The Light and Darkness

Part XXXXIII

Lord, give us Your spirit of grace and prayer to enlighten our heart.  

  Lord, You rescued Prophet Lot from the darkness of the night, and your angels led him and his family out of the gloom and horror of God's retribution. Lord, Your angels warned them not to look back and run away from the destruction, but Lot's wife looked back and was transformed into a pillar of salt. ‘But Lot’s wife looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt’ (Gen. 19: 1-29) (A similar pillar of salt is still there on the bank of Dead Sea which we have seen while we visited the Holy Land) God is speaking to us to follow the light and to get rid of darkness everyday, we may not hearing His voice  because our mind is full of darkness and the pleasures of this world. Jesus is very patient and gentle and he is waiting at the door of our heart. We may always to keep the oil ready for the lamp, that is the constant prayer and to endure in the presence of God. Zechariah 12:10 (NJB): But over the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem I shall pour out a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look to me. When the Holy Spirit comes into our midst we will get away from the darkness of the evil. The world is going after the sins, because the world is belongs to Satan and we are the children of light. Like the five of the wedding attendants, we have to keep the lamp alighted. ‘Ten wedding attendants took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were sensible: the foolish ones, though they took their lamps, took no oil with them, where as ‘sensible ones took the flasks of oil as well as their lamps. The bridegroom was late, and they all grew drowsy and fall asleep. But at midnight there was a cry, “The bridegroom! Go out to meet him……………Those who were ready went in with him to the wedding hall and the door was closed. The other attendants arrived later. “Lord, Lord” they said, “open the door for us” But he replied “In truth I tell you, I do not know you.” So stay awake, because you do not know either the day or the hour.’ (Matt. 25: 1-13)

   We must be like the five prudent ladies who were praying vigil for our Lord while keeping the lamp alight with enough oil till the bridegroom arrives to accompany him.The other five attendants were asleep rather than carrying out the duties assigned to them by the Master of the Ceremony. They could not withstand the light of Jesus and fell into darkness.

 Let us pray: Lord, we are weak and lame without courage and strength. Oh Lord, come and strengthen us to be united with you in sublime prayer and contemplation. Lord, let us  sustain in You and to follow You till we reach Your eternal glory.Lord, show us the way of light to follow you. Lord: ‘Your word is lamp for my feet, a light on my path’ Ps 119: 105(NJB) Lord, Give us the Word of light to enlighten our soul.