Light in the Darkness

18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,

which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;

they do not know over what they stumble.

It’s tempting to lurk in the shadows, conceal the truth and race to the bottom.

The race to the top requires a foundation of trust, and trust comes from relevant information. Sunlight makes it easier to see where we’re going.

Buechner says it like this: The incarnation is a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers. Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

The problem with apathy and its cynical cousins isn’t only that we’re left contenting ourselves with temporarily comforting illusions. The real trouble with dodging reality is that we end up missing the Light shining in the shadows, the Light which, no matter how faint it appears at a particular moment, cannot be overtaken by the darkness.

PRAYER

Lord God, in the deepest night there rises the star

of morning, of birth, the herald of a new day you

are making, a day of great joy dawning in yet faint

shafts of light and love. I hear whispers of peace

in the stillness, fresh breezes of promise stirring,

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8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

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CREED

We believe in the one High God who out of love created

the beautiful world and everything good in it. He

created man and wanted man to be happy in the world.

God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the

earth. We have known this High God in the darkness,

and now we know him in the light. God promises in

the book of his word, the Bible, that... See more