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
Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor the arrow that flies in the day. Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday. Psalm 91:5-6 NLT

Look! It is Solomon's carriage, escorted by sixty warriors... prepared for the ​terrors of the night. Song of Songs 3:7-8 NIV

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
 
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith....
1 Peter 5:8-9 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
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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
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

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
When all you’ve left is leaving 
And all you got is grieving
And all you know is needing
Before merciful to me, Lord, for 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: "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 16:22 NIV
A song for someone
Jesus: "and 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 14:15-20 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 1:20-21 NIV
Are you tough enough to be kind?
Jesus: "I tell you, love your enemies.... 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 also 2 Corinthians 6:6 

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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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 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
 
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: "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:21 NIV