Greater is He that is living in me , than he who is living in the world.

Lately, I have found myself quite scared of life in general. I have always loved life, and always had the greatest faith in God.  I still do of course, but for some reason death and other scary things have been frightening  to me recently when they never really used to before.

This has been on my mind  a lot. Today though I heard in a variety of songs "Greater is he that is living in me, than he who is living in the world." And Jeremy Camp's song elaborated on it continuing to sing "He’s conquered our enemy No power of darkness No weapon prevails  We stand here in victory". I know God wanted me to hear this as the lyric was quite repetitive today and no other good songs were on. It dawned on me that I do not need to be afraid of frightening things because God has already overcome them. I have enourmous amounts of light in me, and darkness cannot harm me. Jesus cheated death for me. The least I can do is trust that he will get me, my family, my friends and all of us through this scary world because he has already conquered the enemy.

I am so grateful that he has, it makes my life a lot easier.

So... I just reread my blog and I find it funny that 1) I touched on the subject of fear before 2) my last post had this same song. I find it interesting that since I am human sometimes God has to repeat things over and over, just like a nagging parent. I dont mind, God can continue to remind me. He knows I need it. 

The Light Shines in the Darkness and the Darkness Shall Not Overcome It

*Warning some  movie and show spoilers*

A theme that I have noticed  in a few movies and television shows that I have watched is that for someone to save their loved ones they have to fall to some dark side. In Star Wars Anakin falls into the temptation of the dark side is powerful enough to stop death.  In Once Upon A Time the main character Emma gives into the darkness to save the love of her life. Many of the other characters  in many other series and movies do similar things to bring back those who they love or to protect their loved ones.

As I watch this I always wonder why, even though the dark side never wins, it is often viewed as more powerful. It can save our loved ones, it can give us all of these things.  Despite the trend that it never works out for the villains  or even the heroes who use dark magic, they are given great power. Being a fan of the light side this theme of powerful darkness has troubled me a little.

Until I remembered which side is more powerful in real life.

It is not death or darkness that wins in real life, no it is the light. God has the power to raise the dead, he raised his son for all of the world to live. God overpowers evil all the time, and the good side is going to win. The darkness is not more powerful in real life, we have immortality through God and Jesus. We have the holy spirit moving through us and if that is not amazing then I do not know what is. We are more powerful than the darkness. God has defeated it, and guess what.... that same power, the holy spirit, it moves through all of us. We have the force, and the light side is invincible.

I am so thankful that we do not live in the television shows and movies that glorify the power of the dark side (even if they are really good movies and shows). I am so thankful that God is more powerful than anything and that the light the goodness that moves through all living things, through you and me, is more powerful than the greatest evils of the universe. Love truly does conquer all and I could not be more thrilled.

Lately a song has been on the radio stations I listen to a lot, and no matter how repetitious it is or how many times I hear it I leave it on and I listen to the whole thing. That song is Same Power by Jeremey Camp. It fits this post I had no idea I was going to write, but here it all comes together just like it always does.

May God Bless You All.

Thank you for reading.

Breanna