As an African American in America and as a Christian that doesn’t subscribe to traditional or colonized Christianity (You’re welcome!), I think I know quite a bit about light and darkness. We all have light or had light. Yes, light can be put out. Light can be rekindled. We all have darkness and darkness has many variations of the absence of light. There is dark but, the moon and the stars give light. There is darkness called pitch black and you cannot see your hands in front of your face. You can’t even see the shape or outline of anything.

When you go to the extent of putting on sheep’s clothing to hide the wolf you have become or are, this is deception. This is manipulation. This is not love or light. This is evil and pitch black darkness. You can’t feed me and beat me and say it is love and light. You can’t sit beside me in worship and plot my demise to the world. You can’t build me up in a temple and tear me down in an arena of my enemy. You can’t compliment me and insult me. I don’t trust you. I don’t believe you. Who are you? What are you? Twisted. Imagine I am a sheep but I put on wolf’s clothing to go hang with the wolves. Then I come back to the sheep. Then I go back to the wolves. Then I come back to the sheeps. And at some point, I get so caught up in wolf living, I think I am a wolf. I adopt the the mindset of a wolf among the wolves and sheeps. I straddle the fence of light and dark. I waver between the two. And then a shaking comes, I fall because I wasn’t rooted in love and light. I was weakened by the fluctuating of my loyalty and commitments.

Switching the light off and on was a fun thing to do when we were children. (But when we became adults and mature we put away childish things). It made movement (energy) slow down or appear static and robotic. It makes it scary to see in a scary movie. However, sometimes the light bulb blows and depending on the time of day, you are either left with light or darkness. I use discernment and observation. I look at the fruits of the spirit and the fruits of the flesh. I look at the consistency. I look at the actions and the words. I do not ignore my gut. I do not ignore the unction of the Holy One. I do not ignore my intuition and it’s glaring red light. WARNING! CAUTION! GET BACK! You can’t be friends with light and pitch black darkness. In my religion (I don’t know about other people’s religion of Christianity), you can’t have a friendship with God and evil. To be friends with the world (those that promote fruits of the flesh and such things that are not love) is to be an enemy of God.

There’s a crossing over into darkness some never recover from. Some have hit rock bottom and died there. Sad. Sick hearts vacillate between light and pitch black darkness and whatever they feed their hearts the most is what will consume their hearts. Hanging around wolves when you are sheep is like putting your hand to the plow and looking back (being distracted). You’re pushing the plow with in a Jesus costume. But those who have discernment can see through costumes and have the wisdom and the courage to speak up and out against wolves in sheep’s clothing. Darkness masquerading as light.

In this season of wolves, transcend sheep-hood into shepherds of unwavering, unfiltered, unaltered LIGHT. I’d rather be a worker of light than a worker of iniquity.

~Nikki