9 January -- Intercessory Introspection

Additional Scriptures: 1 Thes. 5:23, Psalm 139, 1 John 1:7, DC Talk's "In the Light" from Jesus Freak.

So I had a completely different take on the meaning of the Psalm reference than Oswald did and it led my right to the song, "In the Light," by DC Talk. I just kept singing that song all day and I see the correlation with today's devotion.

The concept of being made "obtuse by sin" is exactly what happens to us when we turn away from the light. We become dull and boring ... oh, I could not stand to be dull and boring ;-) ... but worse, we become immune to the sins we commit. Screwtape, the indomitable administrator in Hell, in CS Lewis's Screwtape Proposes a Toast laments that there are no more great sinners. And he's right, there are just dull and boring sinners, deluded by their own pride and rationalizations.

But the light is everywhere ... there is not a place that the Lord cannot see. Our challenge is to WANT to be in the light and want to shine that light for others.



(Okay, some of the pictures in the video feed definitely "date" the band ... forget the pix and listen to the song! ;-)