The Word is a light for my path

Many of us have seen a big ole 4 battery flashlight. The aluminum ones that were the mainstay of civil service workers and police for 40 years.

They are powerful, reliable, and last a long time.

The Scriptures are much like that big ole 4 battery flashlight. And like that big ole 4 battery flashlight, there are three things the Scriptures can be used for.

If someone pops off a verse to scold someone, that is like hitting someone over the head with that big ole 4 battery flashlight. It can be effective, but it isn't what they were designed for.

If someone pops off verses from time to time to tell others what they should think of the Bible or God, it is like shining that big ole 4 battery flashlight in people's eyes. They may see the light, but it isn't what they were designed for.

If someone shines the light down the path, they can tell a person where the path is. It can keep people on the right path.

Or, if someone has the light in their own hands, they can shine it on the path themselves (though someone may have to initially show them how to operate it, where the batteries are and the switch).

They can use the light themselves to light the path. It can keep them on the path, and keep them from harm. In their hands, it can be used for defense, for illumination, and for guidance.

That is what the Scriptures were designed for. For each of us to hold, to light the path, to give us illumination, and to keep us from harm.

But we have to grasp them, use them, and wield them our own selves.

The Scriptures are powerful, reliable, and they last a long time.


Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalms 119:105

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It is appointed unto man (mankind) once to die, and after that the judgment. Will you stand before God, clothed in the righteousness of Christ, or stand before him in your sin? This is the all important question.