I have been stuck on this phrase, "I'll hold you in the Light", for the last few days. My Mom was reading an article about the significance of light in different religions/holiday celebrations. Like, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and others. In the article they had talked to a woman who is a Quaker and she said that instead of saying "I'll pray for you" they say "I'll hold you in the Light"
How beautiful is that? To hold someone in the all consuming, dark banishing light of Jesus. I love it! I want to adopt this new way of saying I'll pray for someone.
Holding up people, situations, concerns, needs, desires all in the Light.
The picture is so wonderful to me. The smallest ray of light can pierce so significantly through darkness. This saying seems to mean more then just praying for someone. It means carrying others when are weak, bearing each others burdens, standing in the light when others feel to weak to do so themselves.
I know there have been many times where I needed to be held in the light. It is a blessing to have people around you who can do this for you and it is as big a blessing to be able to do this for someone else. Darkness may try to overtake us but light will penetrate the darkness.
Walk in the light as He is in the light as it says in 1 John. He is in the light.
Ecc 2:13 says, "I saw that wisdom is better then folly just as light is better then darkness."
1 Peter 2:9 "But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light."
We are people of light so let us hold one another IN the light.
