Light Pierces Darkness - Thoughts and a Prayer

 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to You, and the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

Psalm 139:11,12

Lest I forget that I was born with a need for God, there are things I remember about my childhood that make me wonder where my thoughts could have come from. Such as seeing my baby brother sitting on the street and not warning him that a car was coming, or using him to say something bad to God. Really? I'm ashamed when I think about these things. I remember putting a dark towel over the window because I did not want God to see me. I was maybe five, with no real sense of who God is and ready to test Him. Somehow these memories point me to the person I could have become had His light not shone into my life to the point where I can only be thankful that, although He sees, He loves and does not treat us as our sins deserve. 

And yet, I'm sitting here in my little bright corner looking out into the dark, wishing otherwise on them . . . the ones stealing the innocence of children, selling them as prizes, the lucky ones escaping as orphans without food, without hope. I yearn for the light to expose and to make right this darkness steeped in lies - and evil attempts to bury what is good, calling good evil and evil good. When, O Lord, will not only Your light, but the fire of Your wrath come to bring justice? If darkness is as light to You, I know You see what is happening to these children whose frame was not hidden when You made them in the secret place. I know that all the days ordained for them were written in Your book. Do You see them now? I believe You do. Lord, let Your light shine on them that they may find their way . . . and save them by Your mighty hand of justice. This I pray in the Name of Jesus.