Yes, I will just admit it...I do like this song! It is just a fitting title to what HE is showing me over the past couple of weeks. And HE taught me so much on the same theme yesterday through a club service I watched online.
The leader was talking about serial killers and all the serial killer shows that are out there now. He said the thing that is most scary about these serial killers is that they generally targeted someone they know. This could be someone you invited into your house or even have entered into theirs. The only way that a serial killer will stop killing is if he/she is caught.
It is the same in our lives. There is a smooth criminal constantly lurking around our lives and we have invited him into our lives in various ways. Many of the ways are the cultural "norms", his personal favorite in my life. Solomon warned us saying " There is a way that seems right to men, but it leads to death." And that is so true. I am seeing clearly just how he has consumed so much of my culture and the things that seem right to the world, in reality leads to death!
It is in this moment that we need HIM to come and illuminate now only the party that we like in our life. But we need to let HIM take HIS flashlight to the dark, deep corners of our heart and shine HIS light there. Does that mean that we will be exposed for who we really are? Yes. Does that mean that other people will see our deepest, darkest secrets that we have tried for so long to keep hidden? Yes. But more than that, it means that HE will receive so much glory for what HE has done in our life! We are forgiven of all the crap we like to hide from the world, why not let go of it and be set free from the guilt and shame? Why not allow HIM to use our screw-ups to glorify HIMself and encourage other people?
HE, HIMself warns us that the "thief comes ONLY to steal and kill and destroy but I have come that they might have life and have it to the full". What? Those cultural norms that the smooth criminal has used for centuries have one point and one point only...to steal, kill and destroy us. He wants to steal the joy of a truly intimate relationship with Our Father, kill any chances that we have to live a life to glorify HIS Name, and destroy our idea of what it means to live life to the full! Why do we consistently allow the criminal to enter into whatever corner of our life but are so resistant to allow HIM to shine HIS Light into all parts of us and illuminate us for the world to see HIM?
And so HE reminds Kendall again, "If you hold to my teachings, you are really my disciples." What do HIS teachings say? Am I holding to them? I want to be HIS disciple, I call myself HIS discple but I want to REALLY be HIS disciple. So, what am I doing? Asking HIM to shine HIS light in my life, no matter how much it hurts, and revealing the serial killers in my life. I want them caught and out of my life. I know it is going to hurt. I know I will be embarrassed in my flesh. I know more than anything, that HE WILL BE GLORIFIED! I know that I will have an even more intimate relationship with HIM! Nothings else matters.
So, be in pryr for me as HE identifies these serial killers/cultural norms that are a part of my life and HE catches them and gets rid of them. Be in pryr as HE takes HIS flashlight to the deepest parts of me and exposes me for who I am, a horrible sinner! Be my friends/family who love me in spite of my ugliness and are quick to give HIM glory for how HE has saved my life and slow to judge me for my sin!
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