Light in the Darkness

 Job 6-8; Acts 12

“So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him…Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell…the chains fell off Peter’s wrists…They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself and they went through it…”

Acts 12:5, 7, 10

Herod’s arrest of Peter was meant to be a fatal blow to the early Church in Jerusalem. Instead, it strengthened the faith and prayer life of the Church and resulted in praise to God when he miraculously delivered Peter from prison and certain death.

What impossible situations do we find ourselves in as we, too, live on mission with Jesus?

No prison or plan of the enemy is too great for the Lord! What the enemy has planned for evil, God will use for good, perhaps not in our timing or plan, but for his glory. In the darkest of circumstances, God’s light is always present. The light that shone in Peter’s prison cell did not come from an earthly source. We are called the light of the world as we, too, carry the glory of the Lord wherever we go.

“Lord Jesus, thank you for your Spirit and your glory in the darkness of my night. You are the light in me that shines for your glory.”