An Aha Moment!

Yesterday we were at Sunday School and Stacy was upstairs in the sound area.  Suddenly, a florescent light above her came on.  We did not notice because we were downstairs and all the lights were on there in the Sanctuary.  But Stacy noticed because she was used to being in the dark up there and the light really changed things for her.  I told her then that I thought that "would preach" and that maybe we were so comfortable in the darkness because it had become normal and usual for us.  We don't bother turning on the light because we don't need it to function.  I love to find spiritual applications in everyday situations and everyday conversation, and I usually just write such things in my Journal and think about them for awhile and move on.  This morning I was reading in 2nd Peter for my devotional time and the 2nd verse of the first chapter reads  like this:  "May God bless you with His special favor and wonderful peace as you come to know Jesus, our God and Lord, better and better."  Aha!  The reason I don't have as much peace as I desire, and as I used to have, is because I have become comfortable with my Spiritual experience and am not seeking actively to know Him better and better?  I have found many excuses (some reasonable) for my current lack of complete peace.  This allows me to not feel guilty and to carry on, secure in my salvation.  But what if I have just become accustomed to the level of light in which I have lived for years?  What if there is so much more for me to learn about Jesus, my God and Lord, so that I may serve Him better and better?  If you ask me, I will tell you that I know I have to keep growing so that I stay alive in Him.  And I do attend to daily Bible reading, and devotions, and I do pay close attention in Sunday School and Worship services.  I know that I desire in my heart to serve Him fully and lovingly.  But I wonder if I have stopped that eager, desperate search for Him that I used to know.  I don't want to forget what God has done for me!  I don't want to become so comfortable in the darkness that I turn the light back off (sorry, Stacy) when it is turned on for me by God!  From now on, I will actively seek the Light and accept His gift of peace as I seek to know Jesus better and better!  I think I will have to find new ways to do this, though, so that I get out of my comfort zone.  Strange, I used to think that my lack of peace was because of the many times in this past decade that I have been removed from my comfort zone - maybe I was not recognizing the Light that was to have shown me the way through those troubling times.  Sometimes I am a slow learner........