But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 1 Peter 2:9.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I want to make your life beautiful, the most beautiful life ever lived. I want to drive out your darkness by the wonderful light that I give.
For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6.
Come to Me and let Me fill your life with My love. Come to Me, come to Me, for I call your name from above to lift you into realms with Me where you will forever be, the realm of the light of My glory.
And the [heavenly] city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. Revelation 21:23.
The first man and woman tried to detach from the light of My Word but it plunged them and all their descendants into the darkness. It took you from righteousness to unrighteousness. And unrighteousness puts you under oppression. But I sent My Word as a light to your path and to enlighten your eyes and to show you the path of the righteous which, like the light of dawn, gets brighter and brighter as you walk with Me along that path of light that leads to My Holy Mountain, the mountain of grace, to Zion. And there I made you righteous with My own righteousness. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And if you will come in faith to My Son and receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, you will reign in life through Him. Established in righteousness you are far from oppression. Robed in righteousness, clothed in Christ, you become beautiful as a new creation of light in Him. In Christ I have made you holy, blameless, and beautiful beyond all you can ask or hope for without Him. Perfection of beauty shines forth from within you when you have heard His voice as He knocked at the door of your heart and received Him into your heart
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth. Psalm 50:2.
O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me; let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to Your dwelling places. Psalm 43:3.
Before Christ came in the flesh the world was plunged in darkness—the darkness that sin brings. Sin must be done in darkness for fear it will be exposed in the light, for sin is self-destruction and to master you it seeks to hide in the darkness so as not to be exposed and eradicated by glory. When My glory, which manifests in resurrection power, hits sin, it as if the sin had never been, it is totally eradicated, as when Jesus was raised up from the depths of hell to the heights of Heaven at My right hand with all sin gone and you who believe were raised up in Him, with Him, and through Him, dead to sin and alive to Me. My power is towards you who believe by My Spirit in you and on you, indeed, how lovely, how beautiful is My dwelling place. You.
This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-7.
Do you see what taking all sin into His own flesh to become sin for you so that you could become the righteousness of God in Him did to My Son and to the natural world? It plunged it into three hours of darkness, deep darkness, as His flesh was shattered, crushed, and destroyed under the weight of the burden of sin. Sin is a very heavy burden, a very cruel master, that you were never meant to know, entertain, or carry.
For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they weigh too much for me. Psalm 38:4.
But many today are carrying in their bodies and souls the heavy burden of their sins, and yet, instead of seeking the solution that will lift that burden and make their life alive with light and splendor, which is the beauty of holiness that I make available to you in Christ, they just pile sin upon sin and make the burden heavier and heavier, until they can hardly move their morbidly obese, alcoholic, drug addicted, tormented, sin driven bodies anywhere but back to eat from the table of sin that is destroying the beauty of the life I planned for them.
The things that you carry are burdensome, a load for the weary. They stooped over, they have bowed down together; they could not rescue the burden, but have themselves gone into captivity. Isaiah 46:1-2.
Just as Adam and Eve, they are eating from the wrong tree, the tree of death and not the tree of life. But that tree of death looks so attractive to make you free of all restraints, to give you the taste and knowledge of evil.
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. James 1:13-16.
Sin will plunge you into darkness and put out the light of your spirit. And it is your spirit that is My lamp that I light so that I can go through your body with My all-encompassing light and heal every part, every hidden part, making spirit, soul, and body complete.
The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the innermost parts of his being. Proverbs 20:27.
Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; abstain from every form of evil. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-24.
You were formerly darkness, but now in Jesus, who is the Light of the world, you have the light of life and should never again be walking in darkness. You are Light in Jesus. When you receive Him as Lord, He gives you the authority to be My children and empowers you to walk as children of Light, for the fruit of the Light consists in all goodness and righteousness and truth, guiding you to know what is pleasing to Me to keep you with Me in the light of life, which is the light of perfect love. And perfect love casts out all fear, which has to do with darkness and hidden sin.
Avoid participating in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them to the light. It is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by sinners in secret. But let the light of My Word in and all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. Ephesians 5:8-13.
What is the answer to get this heavy burden that is destroying your life and weighing you down so that you cannot run your race with joy? That is making you plod along with the weary instead of soaring above with Me on eagle’s wings? Keeping you in the dark valley of the shadow of death instead of enjoying walking on the heights with hind’s feet upon the mountains? Clothing you in the heaviness of a listless spirit when you could be dancing in the garment of praise?
First, and it should be obvious, get rid of the burden.
Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken. Psalm 55:22.
Jesus gives you an invitation that is an answer: Come to Him all who are burdened and He, the anointed One, your Messiah and Lord, will lift that burden and break the yoke of sin.
So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of the anointing. Isaiah 10:27.
In Jesus I have rescued you out of the domain of darkness and put all your sins, guilt, shame, blame, sickness, disease, lack, pain, judgment and death sentence (the wages of sin is death) on Jesus and given you His abundance and righteousness. You no longer need to bear the burden. He did. And now His yoke is easy and His burden LIGHT.
Blessed be the Lord (Adonai), who daily bears our burden, the God who is our salvation (Yeshuah). Selah. God is to us a God of deliverances; and to the LORD (Yahavah) the Lord (Adonai) belong escapes from death. Psalm 68:19-20.
So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of the anointing. Isaiah 10:27.
Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, you who have been borne by Me from birth and have been carried from the womb; Even to your old age I will be the same, and even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; and I will bear you and I will deliver you. Isaiah 46:3-4.
That, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Ephesians 4:22-24.
In this series I am going to show you how to make your life beautiful together with Me so that your unique life becomes unto you and unto Me the most beautiful life ever lived. It all begins when you are born again from above by faith in your heart that I raised Jesus from the dead with all your sins paid for and eradicated by the glory of resurrection power as you confess Jesus as Lord empowered by the Holy Spirit. And then as a new creation living in the light, no longer living your life in the darkness of sin, offense, bitterness, lust and shame, attached to the vine of Christ, drawing all you need to grow and be fruitful as you abide in Him from the flow of the life of the vine into you as an abiding branch, which is the flow of My life being poured into you by the gift of the Holy Spirit, and thus producing the fruit of the Spirit which is the life of the vine, making you a partaker of My divine nature and the fruit thereof.
To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 2 Peter 1:1-4.
I love you. I refuse to leave you in the darkness you so easily slip into and lose your destiny and your joy. And in the coming life lessons we will examine all the ingredients in the fruit of the Spirit that you are producing on the vine of Christ and get down to each seed to plant it in the garden of your heart until you are so filled with beauty and the fragrance of Heaven that it wafts into the word just by your presence and begins to turn wherever you are into the beautiful garden of Eden, thus fulfilling My blessing upon all mankind to be fruitful and to take the garden, guard it and cultivate it, until you replenish the entire earth. I send forth My Spirit and they are created and I renew the face of the earth. Let us do that together.