The Light Point

During the process of discovering intimacy with God, He showed me what was really at the root of my insecurity and pain. Salvation is a powerful thing but oftentimes we find ourselves saved but still bound when we don’t intentionally seek an intimate relationship with God. Once I understood the root of my brokenness, I saw that I needed to focus on God until he was the only thing in my view. I needed to seek after him until I had no choice but to see the whole world through Christ-colored lenses. Through him, everything can be seen so much more clearly, including me. This is because God is not opaque. He is light and he illuminates every space He’s in. So, when we let Him into the depths of our problems and pain, He really gets to the root and heals us from the inside out. The first root God revealed was my pride.

To be Prodigal is to be lavish, reckless, or wasteful. While I may not have been prodigal with my resources, like many young people, I was prodigal with my opportunity to have a relationship with God. Because I thought of salvation as a one-time event instead of a life-long process, when certain things started to go wrong in my life, when I still had toxic behaviors, shame, loneliness, depression, anxiety, I accepted my brokenness as how things had to be instead of tracing the root of my issue to my lack of relationship with God. I thought I was home so I never realized that I was far from my father. It was only when I saw how far away I was that I could allow God's lavish, reckless grace to bring me back home. The prodigal daughter encountered the prodigal God.

There is a way that silence protects shame and shame keeps you in a place of bondage mentally even after you've been set free in reality. the devil isn't so worried about your salvation as long as he can count on your silence. As long as you don't become vocal enough and honest enough to set anyone else free, you're not a threat to the enemy. In order to truly be free, you must come out of hiding, you must speak because at that moment when your truth finds agreement with the true and living God, you begin to step out of darkness and into the light

Join me as we take a trip down memory lane to where my story begins in childhood. It is during those times when we need to go backward in order to move forward that our memory becomes a powerful helper instead of just a painful reminder. In Chapter 1, I identify the seeds that were planted in a season when I didn’t know how to guard my heart. It was only when I identified the origin of my pain, shame, and broken worldview that I was empowered to surrender them to God. When we understand the starting point of the darkness we can learn how to let in the light.

On season one of the light point podcast, you will hear my story of overcoming insecurity, finding identity, and discovering intimacy with Christ. I figured if I want other people to share their stories I should take the first step of vulnerability. Thank you for joining me in the light.