{"id":1072,"date":"2017-01-14T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/living-on-light-side\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:08:43","slug":"living-on-light-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"Living on the Light Side"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m down in the hills of Texas for a few weeks and when it’s dark here….IT’S DARK. I keep a flashlight with me when I venture out at night. That made me think again about Star Wars. Two years in a row, my family and I caught the latest Star Wars flick. Star Wars is a big deal to us \u2013 so much so that my 10 year old grandson wanted to turn in his Christmas gift from me so he could order the latest Star Wars costume. We did. He loves his costumes and light sabers and even my 16-year old, Payton, is a Star Wars junkie \u2013 with his room in all kinds of Star Wars memorabilia. The Star Wars craze always makes me ponder the notion of the \u201cLight Side\u201d versus the \u201cDark Side\u201d. The Jedi were major practitioners of the Light Side, and were the mortal enemies of the Dark Side of the Force. Light versus Dark \u2013 that\u2019s been mankind\u2019s opposing forces since the very beginning of time.<\/p>\n

In the creation story in Genesis, God \u201cspeaks\u201d things into existence \u201cLet there be light\u2026.\u201d It\u2019s a sign of God\u2019s creative power that every single word He utters, brings forth something new, vibrant, and wondrous. Then Adam and Eve fell to the voice of the \u201cDark Side\u201d when the enemy tempted them and succeeded, that caused them to be banished from the beauty of the garden.<\/p>\n

In 1 John 2:5-7, John writes \u201cThis is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is LIGHT and in Him is NO darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.\u201d That\u2019s the difference between the LIGHT side and the DARK side. You can sure tell that jealousy, hate, bitterness and anger caused Anakin Skywalker to go wrong and turn to the Dark Side. It\u2019s quite possible, when we examine our hearts, we won\u2019t find that we hate anyone. But every little thing that we allow to remain in our hearts can have a \u201cdark\u201d effect on us. We might not be in darkness, but we certainly might find ourselves in the \u201cshade\u201d.<\/p>\n

The beginning of this new year is the perfect time to clear out those things that hinder the LIGHT in us. Let\u2019s open ourselves to His healing and empowering light. When we declare with the Psalmist in Psalm 21:1 \u201cThe Lord IS MY LIGHT and my salvation, who should I fear? The Lord is my life\u2019s refuge, of whom should I be afraid?\u201d \u2013 then there will never be a shadow of doubt which side we\u2019re on, and all the dark forces that try to draw us to their side, will never win! The FORCE (the LIGHT source Whom lives within us) Who comes with peace and calm, will always be in us and with us.<\/p>\n

May THE FORCE \u2013 God\u2019s LIGHT Source — be with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m down in the hills of Texas for a few weeks and when it’s dark here….IT’S DARK. I keep a flashlight with me when I venture out at night. That made me think again about Star Wars. Two years in a row, my family and I caught the latest Star Wars flick. Star Wars is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4075,560,4078,4080,6711,6712,6713,6714,6715,6716,2775,2988,6717],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-john-25-7","tag-costume","tag-dark-side","tag-god-is-light","tag-gods-creative-power","tag-let-there-be-light","tag-light-side","tag-memorabilia","tag-psalm-211","tag-rougue-1","tag-star-wars","tag-texas","tag-the-lord-is-my-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}