Night Vision
By Ron Hutchcraft, friend
Isaiah 42:16
I found Ron's words to be very encouraging this week and thought you would as well.
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Good Morning Friends,
Throughout the history of warfare, there has always been those weapons or tools that gave an army an edge. At one time, it was the iron chariot or the catapult. Later, it was the crossbow, then the latest rifle. While it's not exactly a weapon, there is a new military tool that has certainly given the
Night goggles literally allow the wearer to see an illuminated view of what's going on in the darkness; things that would otherwise be invisible. Now, if you can see through the night, you can see what others cannot see and operate when others can't move.
For a long time, God has been equipping folks with the ability to see through the night. You don't need special goggles. You do need to have a love relationship with God where your heart opens up to things He wants to show you. And maybe it's nighttime in your life right now. It's gotten pretty dark. It's hard to see where to go, hard to know what to do, and it's also pretty scary.
Then you're going to love God's promise of night vision to His children who keep trusting Him. It's in Isaiah 42:16, our word for today from the Word of God. God says, "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them..." Are you walking down a way you haven't known before? Headed into an unfamiliar path maybe? Your Lord says, "I will be your night vision."
It gets better. He goes on to say, "I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth." That's awesome! Of course, you have to be walking into the darkness for God to turn the darkness into light. He doesn't say to start walking when He lights up the path. He says to start walking and as you walk, He'll light it up. The rest of His promise concludes: "These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." I've got to tell you, this promise has meant so much to me that I've committed it to memory. I want to be able to say it and stand on it anywhere, anytime. It's a great verse to make a part of you!
Yes, you may be in a night season right now, but your God owns the night! In fact, that's usually when you can see Him best. Like the moon. As long it's light, you can only see a pale moon, at best. But when it's dark,
that's when you can see the brightness of the moon - or of your Master. And just like America's military who get a lot done in the night because they have night vision, your Lord gets a lot done in the nighttimes of our life—often some of His greatest missions.
No matter how dark it is around you right now, your God is able to lead your steps, protect you from all harm, show you where to walk, and enable you to complete your mission to life for Him, unhindered, undiminished, uncompromised, undefeated. No matter what's out there in the dark. Because, as 1 John 4:4 tells us, "the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world."
So, don't make the mistake of just trusting what you can see, or trusting what you can feel. You need to know that your Heavenly Father is walking on ahead of you every step of the night that you are in. So, keep on walking and keep on trusting. Your Father owns the night!
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