Let There Be Light

These are dark days.  It seems like the whole world is in chaos.  There is no place that violence doesn’t exist, either physical or verbal.  Rebellion and the cry for revolution run rampant through this country and the world all around us.  Everyone seems at odds with everybody else as people selfishly demand their rights and that their wrongs be excused, overlooked, or made legal.  As the old song goes, “Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.”  These are dark days and they can be overwhelming.

It is easy to curse the darkness, to point figures of guilt and condemnation.  Somehow that only seems to be making things worse, adding to the darkness rather than dispelling it.  There is only one way to dispel darkness…

“Let there be Light!”

This dilemma is solved every single morning of every single day since the beginning of time.  Every morning the sun appears and the darkness yields and is silently overpowered by the light. No words, no battle, no violence…it simply yields and disappears into nowhere.

“In the beginning was the Word…In Him was life,

And the life was the light of the world.

The light shines in darkness,

And the darkness has not overcome it…

The True light enlightens everyone.”

John 1:1-9

Jesus is the light that transforms darkness, heals the body and soul of humanity, and reveals the God who created the world.  Jesus said to those who receive, believe, and follow Him, “You are the light of the world.”  It is that light, His light within us that needs to be revealed and reflected to everyone in the world.  It is that life and light that those who receive, believe, and follow Jesus are to witness to the world.  Light doesn’t judge, doesn’t condemn, and doesn’t battle the darkness.  It simply shines and released the power of God to transform someone or something into what it was created to be.