Your life is changing drastically before your very eyes, especially if you’re a young guy. They say the world is spinning faster these days…figuratively that is. Chances are you are starting to think about the rest of your life. The carefree days of childhood are well in your rear-view and dude, you got a ton of responsibility coming your way. They might even start calling you the M-n word someday soon. Scary, very scary.

Put yourself in this scenario, or worse, maybe you are in this scenario: You’re in the middle of the forest…running full speed…in the dark. You’re running like crazy trying to find where you’re going, and you look like a mess. You have a big bruise on your forehead where you kissed that big oak a half mile back. You’ve got scratches and cuts from where you hit shrubs and branches. Look at your new Dungarees or whatever they call those fancy overpriced jeans at the mall…they have big holes in them, no wait, Abercrombe did that before you bought them, nevermind. Nonetheless, you’re absolutely muddy from falling over rocks into creeks and you might have sprained your pinky toe when you tripped over that sleeping elk. You look tired from running, and under that scent of macho-ism (the unique mixture of perspiration and that expensive cologne you bought to help you pick up the chicks), I can tell there is a little scaredy cat in there. You can’t see where you’re going, you don’t know where you’re going. You’ve just been running in circles.

To me, this is what life is like when I don’t dig into the Word everyday.

Two of my favorite scriptures are:

“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.” Psalms 119:105

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“Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee.” Psalms 119:11

When you have the Word in your heart, you don’t have to worry about the obstacles of the forest because it is the light that obliterates the darkness in your path. The darkness doesn’t affect you because you have a light. You aren’t scared, and running into stuff, and hurting yourself in the process because you can see. When we have the Word in our heart, it keeps us from falling and sinning. John 1:4 says that in Jesus is life, and his life is the Light of men.

In your quest to stop sinning in a dark world, you first must have a good light. Now, pick yourself up and get in the Word. It’s never too late. Try memorizing scripture that deal with the areas you are struggling in. I promise you won’t be sorry.

Now, try walking through the forest in the dark, with your new light.