2:16: “Darkness gives way to light. Always. I AM light. Am I ever about darkness? Do I ever cause darkness? Mine is the day, Mine is the night. Yes. Did I call night into being at the creation of your earth? Or did I push darkness aside by creating a light to fall over the world?

“Darkness is the natural state of absence of My Presence. My Presence IS Light. I always push darkness away. I created the sun, the moon and stars. These are frequencies of light. Yet I rule the darkness. I rule it by allowing it to Be, untouched by My Light. Ocean depths are dark. Yet I designed creatures to live in them. Night is the absence of your sun, yet My moon and stars cut through the blackness. I designed certain creatures to roam about in the night. There is no place on earth or in space that is not filled by My Presence. Yet there are places I choose to remain without light. I RULE ALL.

“Spiritual darkness, too, is the absence of My Light. I AM the Light of the World. I choose spiritual darkness for no one. Man chooses it – by rejecting and refusing My Light. Light overcomes darkness. Yes. But man can choose to hold back that Light within his own soul by refusing Me.

“Do you see the immense Power of the choice I have given mankind?

“Think on this. It is one of My great mysteries.

“Pride within man causes him to reject My Light. Every person therefore would remain lost – BUT GOD. I designed each person’s spirit to long for My Light in a world now oppressed by spiritual darkness. Your spirit lived in Me before I knit it together with a body. Your spirit remembers My Light and yearns for it. Only My Light can satisfy that yearning – although man tries to satisfy it through earthly things. A dark spirit is one that rejects the Light I created it to be. When you accept My Gift of Redemption and Salvation, your spirit is flooded with My Light.

“Even then, your Choice remains. You can choose to hold back from Me pieces of your soul. Sinful desires, hurts of the past, unwillingness to forgive, aspects of your life you choose to rule yourself – such parts of yourself will lack the flooding of My Light and Healing.

“Do you see why I constantly invite you to give Me your ALL?

“Do you see why I describe Myself as a ‘jealous God?’

“Think on these things, these mysteries of light and darkness. And re-examine yourself and your choices.

“My LIGHT awaits.”
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Notes:

Psalm 74:16: Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.

Genesis 1:1-5: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

Psalm 139: 7-12: Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, and Your right hand will lay hold of me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, and the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to You, and the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

John 8:12: Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Acts 17:26-28:  “…and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’”

I Corinthians 2:12: “What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.”  

Exodus 34:14: …you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Ephesians 5:8-11:  …you were formerly darkness, but now you are Light in the Lord; walk as children of Light (for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them.