Living light

We live in troubled times.  It doesn’t take a Masters degree or require a superpower to recognise that fear, worry, concern and stress are rising around the world.  Safety, security, financial pressures, job losses, drugs and family breakdowns are just some of the situations causing an increase in anxiety.  It can feel like a heavy, wet blanklet that stifles and suffocates the joy and peace in our life.  It can feel like we are trapped and becoming claustrophobic in a dark and ever shrinking prison where there seems to be no hope for light and freedom.   Even those who follow Jesus easily forget that part of our surrender to Him is to throw off these cares and concerns, to hand them over to Him and let Him take the heaviness and darkness leaving us to live light.  For some reason we seem to take pride in being able to try and cope with life by ourselves and not take the opportunity to cast all our concerns on Him.