Evermore Devos: October '25

 Standing in the Darkness

You said the dark times would come...
That persecution, hatred, and violence would be against us.
You said the World would not understand us.

You called us to walk in Your steps...
That suffering would be part of our lot...
But You promised Your peace would go with us.

You said we would be Your lights in the darkness.
That we would shine the Good News to the ends of the World...
That the enemy would not get to rejoice if we fall...
Because you are our Light.

So to You, Jesus, we cry in these darkened times...
Be our Light, and help us to shine for You,
This Day, this Night, and Evermore.

Shinning Light

Lights in the darkness...
Hope in the suffering...
He gave us a purpose...
He gave us a mission...
But are we walking into?

Are we helping our brothers and sisters?
Are we sharing hope with the forgotten?
Are we offering compassion to the outcasts?
Are we being the feet bringing the Good News?
For how else will they hear?

Are we serving where we are?
Are we going where He sends?
Are we listening in the staying and the going?

Are we being faithful to His Great Commission,
This Day, this Night, and Evermore?

Hope in the Darkness...

Darkness falls like leaves around me.
Darkness creeps like a fox through the briars.
Darkness returns like the ever-returning cycles of life.

Yet like the warm autumn sun,
Your Light shines through the trees.
Like the doves cooing above the fox den,
Your Light calls me to come and rest.
Like the faithfulness of the seasons,
Your Light guides me.

So even as the Darkness deepens,
May we follow Your Light,
This Day, this Night, and Evermore.

Lamp in the Darkness

The day is dead, and the night is dark.
The eve it hollows, and the moon is of yet unrisen.
Yet still we reform our minds, and light the lamp.

How too should we light the lamp of our Life?
Jesus has asked us each to go forth as Lights in the Darkness...
Are our lamps shining?
Offering Hope in a lost and dying world?
Are they filled with His oil?
Our hearts and minds full of His Word?
Are they lit?
Connected via the Holy Spirit to Jesus' true Light?

Are we hiding under a basket or bucket?
Or are we shining in the window, calling lost souls in?
Are we swinging in the Rider's hand, seeking the lost one,
While the 99 wait in the barn?
Are we standing on Golgotha's hill,
Where our Light cannot be hid?

Help us, Lord, shine Your Light,
This Day, this Night, and Evermore!

Devos are written by M.M. Nickles and are Creative Commons.

As long as credit is given to the author.