This light, His light, we have established now that it let’s darkness disappear.
This darkness, your darkness, will disappear when we bring His light into it.
The hope we have that His light will one day come and fully enlighten every dark corner of our hearts, our souls, our homes, this world, that is what carries us through in times like these.
It’s not always easy. Sometimes it happens quickly, and sometimes it takes days or weeks or months. Or even years.
Maybe, while you are on this earth, your darkness might never fully disappear.
But this darkness is not from Jesus. Wherever Jesus is, there is goodness and there is life. There is hope. There is light.
Truth is that wherever there is even the tiniest bit of light, there is no darkness.
Wherever there is the tiniest bit of Jesus, there is hope.
Psalms 18:28 says: “You, Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light” (NIV). It does not say that He can turn my darkness into light. It simply says that he does turn my darkness into light.
A lamp, back then, needed oil so that it would burn. This Psalm says that it is the Lord that keeps that lamp burning, that ensures there is oil in there. And with that burning lamp, He turns our darkness into light.
So when darkness wants to take hold of me, when it feels like it’s suffocating me, drowning me, then sometimes, the only prayer I can pray is for His light to shine. For Him to keep our lamp burning. For Him to send His light.
The light of God.
Jesus.
As He tells us Himself in John 8:12: “I am the light of the world” (NIV).
Jesus is the light.
That is the wonder of Christmas. The light that has come into this world. It gives us hope that one day, all of our suffering will be gone.
For some of us, He announces Himself through His angels, powerfully, magically. And in an instant, we are transformed and fall in awe to our knees. And we are changed people and run to Him.
For some of us, He simply sends a guiding star that will take us from places far away closer to Him. It might be a long and strenuous journey. But His guiding star will never cease shining until we have found our way home.
Until one day, He will wipe every tear, and all of our crying and pain and suffering will be gone (Revelation 21:4)
And always and forever, He will be the bright morning star.
Always and forever, He will be the light that shines in the darkness, that cannot be overcome by the darkness (John 1:5). And whoever follows Him will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12b NIV).
Where there is His light, darkness must flee.
So, let His light shine.
Especially this Christmas.
Especially today.
This is part two of the Darkness And Light series. Read part one here.
