13 (THERE IS A LIGHT)

13 (There Is A Light)
Psalm ​​13: Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death. Psalm 13:3 NIV
And if the ​terrors of the night
come creeping into your days 
And the world comes, stealing children from your room
Look! It is Solomon's carriage, escorted by sixty warriors... prepared for the ​terrors of the night. Song of Songs 3:7-8 NIV
 
You will not fear the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day, or the pestilence that stalks in darkness, or the destruction that wastes at noonday. Psalm 91:5-6 NRSV

My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen on me. Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me. Psalm 55:4-5 NIV
 
Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me. All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me. You have taken from me friend and neighbor—darkness is my closest friend. Psalm 88:16-18 NIV
Guard your innocence 
From hallucination
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure and have washed my hands in innocence. All day long I have been afflicted, and every morning brings new punishments. Psalm 73:13-14 NIV
Darkness gathers around the light
​Hold on, hold on 
Job: "I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer... Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness." Job 30:20 & 26 NIV
 
Jesus: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matthew 6:21-23 NIV
 
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you... Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith... 1 Peter 7-9 NIV
There is a light you can’t always see
If there is a world we can’t always be
If there is a dark that we shouldn’t doubt
​And there is a light, don’t let it go out
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 NIV

Jesus: "See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness." Luke 11:35 NIV

Jesus: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12 NIV

Jesus: "You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going. Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of light." John 12:35-36 NIV

Jesus: "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." John 12:46 NIV
When the winds screams and shouts
And the sea is a dragon’s tail
Job: “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer... You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm." Job 30:20-22 NIV
 
The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Revelation 12:9 NIV
When all you’ve left is leaving 
And all you got is grieving
And all you know is needing
I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and body with grief. My life is consumed by anguish and my years by groaning; my strength fails because of my affliction, and my bones grow weak. Psalm 31:9-10 NIV
 
Job: "My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.... My days have passed, my plans are shattered. Yet the desires of my heart turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near." Job 17:7-12 NIV
 
Jesus: "A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy." John 16:21-22 NIV
A song for someone
Jesus: "I shall ask the Father to give you Someone else to stand by you, to be with you always. I mean the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, for it can neither see nor recognise that Spirit." ​John 14:16-17 PHILLIPS
I know the world is dumb
But you don’t have to be
The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness... Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb... 1 Corinthians 1:18-21 MSG
 
Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 1 Corinthians 1:18-21 NIV
Are you tough enough to be kind?
Jesus: "I tell you, love your enemies. Help and give without expecting a return. You'll never—I promise—regret it. Live out this God-created identity the way our Father lives toward us, generously and graciously, even when we're at our worst. Our Father is kind; you be kind." Luke 6:35-36 MSG
 
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 1 Corinthians 13:4 NIV
 
Rather, as servants of God... in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses... in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God... dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 NIV
 
Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, he sees them from afar. Psalm 138:6 NIV
 
Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. Proverbs 14:31 NIV
 
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done. Proverbs 19:17 NIV
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This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom... but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight.” Jeremiah 9:23-24 NIV
 
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness." Jeremiah 31:3 NIV
 
"I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them." Hosea 11:4 NIV
 
Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. Romans 11:22 NIV
 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 NIV
 
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32 NIV
 
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Colossians 3:12 NIV
 
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 2 Timothy 2:24 NIV
Guard your innocence...
Do you know your heart has its own mind?
Above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23 NIV
 
​Jesus: “You’re blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world." Matthew 5:8 MSG
 
Jesus: "Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or—worse!—stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being." Matthew 6:19-21 MSG