What is a shadow? Is it the real thing? Have you ever been startled by a shadow? There is something that is casting a shadow over the world. You must have light to cast a shadow. The light does not come from the one casting the shadow! Does a shadow have power? The psalmist says I will fear no evil.
The thought came to me one day, "If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have brought children into this world. Then I thought of my children, all grown now. The joy that they brought into my life, what they have brought into this valley. They have given so much back to this valley. Some through joy and pain that comes to us all....and have prospered!
What a loss if they had never been born. Besides that, this valley is the only way to meet Jesus and come through, and come out into the kingdom. We must be born again: "Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil (shadow of death).
Satan uses our own fears to stop us from taking one step at a time. That's what walking is, one step at a time.
If there is someone thinking of suicide, just take one more step, one more step. Don't let your enemy win. Have that baby, put it in the arms of God. Psalm 22:9-10. Say, "I will fear no evil, what can a shadow do to me?"
Psalm 23 has the answer. The Lord is my Shepherd. Take our eyes off the shadow and on to the Lord, who loves us. Run into His shadow. He is keeping us. He is protecting us. Keep walking in His shadow. Stay so close that you don't even cast a shadow of your own.
God loves you! John 3:16. He calls you by name.
Love, a work in progress.
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