The other day my six-year-old son says to me, “Mom, you know fog is like sin, and the sun is like Jesus.”
Boy, isn’t that the truth. Don’t you love how sometimes the simple lessons of life can be summed up perfectly by a six year old? And how God can use a simple statement like that to speak volumes of truth?
As I started thinking about this truth, it occurred to me that there was an even deeper truth here that God wanted to show to me. He wanted to show me how the tiniest seed of fear, pride, insecurity, or rebellion could work its way into a fog so thick that I can’t see the steps in front of me.
And by allowing the fog to remain I become crippled and ineffective for God’s glory. God suddenly feels illusive, and his plans for me are hidden.
In a fog I…
- Can’t see what’s ahead of me.
- Can’t see what’s coming at me.
- Can’t see what’s behind me.
- I am only able to focus on the immediate.
I actually can get fixated on what is directly in front of me and I am powerless to do anything other than react to things as they happen.
I become a sitting duck waiting to be pummeled by the enemy.
This is not living victoriously through Christ.
When I was young, a neighbor of mine was trapped on a lonely highway in a fog so dense that he couldn’t see past the hood of his car. While creeping along he hit something and pulled over. When he got out of his car to see what he had hit a semi truck came plowing through the fog at a high speed and hit him and his car. He and his wife’s bodies were shattered and in critical condition. They ultimately survived, but were forever damaged by that terrible accident.
How much more damaging is it for us when we allow anything to get between our self and God?
How many semi trucks of life have hit me because I have allowed the fog to cover my view of God?
How have I allowed the paralyzing fog of fear, insecurity, pride, or rebellion to steal my effectiveness?
God is not paralyzed. He is not in a fog. Semi-trucks don’t surprise him.
He is more powerful than my fear, my pride, my insecurity, and my rebellion. And he has made a way. He gives us power to overcome that fog. To speak to it and have it lifted. To trust in him and be set free of it’s blinding cover. He is the Son of God. The One and Only.
“In him {Jesus} was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” John 1:4-5
Just as the sun burns through a thick fog making vision clear again, so the SON burns through our fog, making us effective for him. I love it!
It is not us who are effective for God…
…it is God MAKING us effective.
It’s still all about him! We utterly need him. We utterly must rely on him. He is the light in the darkness.
