There Are Always A Few Mighty Lights

Something to know. . . . And, yes, I dare say it.  I have seen it before and there is absolute scripture to back it up; so it's not just an "experience".  And it is not boasting or hubris or presumption.  

There is always a "remnant".  In Noah's time EIGHT out of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, were spared.  Many are called, few are chosen.  Same with Sodom & Gomorrah . . . God was willing to spare if even TEN (righteous) might be found!  Again, we're talking a very, very small fraction of Believers amidst a large population were there.  And even at that, it ended up just being a few, less than ten. . . .

Hence, when you feel as if the whole world and forces and principalities, seen and unseen hordes are against you . . . know that it is because it is so rare--YOU are so rare, that all such enemies shall be arrayed and targeting and against you. 

 

Imagine a broad, wide valley--a large city full of tens, hundreds of thousands of souls being there.  All going about their business, busy, living, bustling, surviving. . . . Now turn off ALL the lights.  

NOW, imagine that, amidst that big, full populace . . . the lights of those who are His--who are actual blessed, chosen children of God TURN ON. . . .

You would see a vast black, dark swath . . . and here and there, maybe five?  Maybe ten . . . flickers of light show here and there throughout that whole municipal array.  THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS dead and dark, no light.  But in one corner over here there is a light, and in one place over there, and maybe on the east or west edge a light is on, and a few more lights sprinkled about the middle.  The rest is spiritual wasteland, no life, no light REGARDLESS of the hustle and bustle.

THAT is an image of how rare and few a remnant is in any given population.

HENCE why, the villains--the wicked, the demons, the living dead . . . are sent to find and attack and try to extinguish such lights.  

If one could see just how protected and sustained and blessed and guarded, guided God's people are compared to the enemies arrayed against, one would fall on face, in tears, grateful, thankful, in awe all the day long!  Angels are assigned to such, as needed!

BUT, we are in the world, and so cannot bear at this time to see or know this for much time at all.  For we must carry on in the world, being ambassadors, useful during this mortal run.  Oh yes! We shall indeed have plenty of time to further express and know our divinely stunned gratefulness and thanks.

In the meantime, according to His Word, we can know that "strait is the way, and narrow is the gate and few there be that find it" (those who He has loved and "chosen before the foundation of the world.")

It is no mystery that the vast armies of darkness are sent to harass and oppress and are tasked to destroy and snuff the flames of Holy Spirit infused light and life individuals wherever they may be.  Like (demonic) moths to the flame, they surround.

But for the grace and will and mercy of God, the remnant, the chosen--those who love and serve The Lord, would be easily and swiftly quashed, considering the panoply of onslaught and worldly mire asaaulting.

And, of course, not because WE are so great or deserving or worthy or mighty; BUT BECAUSE HE IS!!!!!