Bathed in His Promises

January 28

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot." Korean Proverb

Your heavenly Father’s expects you to reflect the light of Jesus. You may deny it, but that does not change the reality of what God wants you to be, a beautiful and brilliant light that illumines the darkness around you. Perhaps you deny the light in you because it's a big responsibility to be light, to have anyone look to you for illumination, but, that’s a cop-out.

Every believer is in the same situation. Apart from Jesus and the light He shines upon us and through us, we all stumble in the darkness. We may rail at the darkness but as this proverb states so succinctly, when we do, we risk injuring ourselves because anger places the one who harbors it in jeopardy. That is why the beautiful words of Micah 7:8 are so precious to people of faith. Here the Lord tells us through His prophet, "Rejoice not over me, O, mine enemy, for when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me."

Although we may hurt our own foot when we kick a stone in anger, we will not harm ourselves even if we fall, if we are walking in His integrity, for HE will catch us; He will keep us from falling, or He will pick us up! (See Jude 1:24). When the darkness of our circumstances surrounds us, JESUS will be a light to us! With that great truth to guide our walk, we are constrained from lashing out in frustration or impatience or despair or anger! When we place our hand in His, we know the One who overcomes all the works of the evil one can also overcome his mischief in us!


The reality is that we are brought to the point of pain, frustration, impatience, despair and anger when we feel helpless to overcome the negative circumstances that we face. We slump into negativity when neither our attempts at resolution nor our prayers seem to be effectual to the overcoming of our problems. The enemy of our soul relies upon this negativity within ourselves for it is the only weapon he has to use against us! The WORD tells us that "no weapon formed against you shall stand," (See Isaiah 54:17). That statement leads us to conclude that the only weapon that has a chance to undo us is the one we form against ourselves—the weapon of unbelief!

Equipped with that knowledge, we must prevent ourselves from 'kicking stones in anger,' for it is those stones that originate in our own mind that can harm us! Let us rather, take all those stones of bitterness and despair and depression and place them in our 'rock garden' of faith where truth and honor and kindness and gentleness and meekness and hope and love may bloom under the SON-SHINE of Jesus' love and be bathed in the LIVING WATER of His promises.