Luke 1:78-79 (ISV)
It has been an amazing experience for me working through the Twelve Steps. A new light begins to shine on our lives as we take an honest inventory of ourselves (step 4), share it with another person (step 5), become willing for God to change us (step 6), humbly ask for that change to take place (step 7), become honest about the people we have harmed (step 8), and make amends to them all (step 9).
So much of our lives are spent in darkness, denial and making excuses. What a joy and relief to have light shine upon us so that we can see the truth about ourselves and walk in what is real.
This is the promise of God, that his light would shine into our darkness. All we have to do is be honest and willing to open up and face it all.
Lord, give us more light. Shine into every dark area and every dark corner until we see things as they really are. As we walk in your light, you cleanse and renew us and the day dawns brighter and brighter.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it.
John 1:5 (NLT)
But if we keep living in the light as he himself is in the light,
we have fellowship with one another,
and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
If we say that we don't have any sin,
we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and righteous to forgive us those sins
and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:7-9 (ISV)
