Coffee in hand, I sat in my living room meditating the day in. This particular morning, my routine was filled with a fanciful thought, “What if darkness persisted this time?” As I peered out my window, nature was aligned with the reality that apart from light darkness is comprehensive. It does indeed entirely saturate all things under its cloak. And dark it was, so dark that I momentarily questioned whether our garden, which is just a few feet away from the window, was actually still there.
My left brain knew for a fact that the sunrise was coming, but my right brain played with the thought. I took that musing into the morning's study and ran across...
John 1:4b-5 "...His life gave light to everyone. The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out."
As I meditated on God’s life giving truth, time passed until something happened. A ray, then another, started to penetrate the darkness. As dawn appeared, the light of the Son began to break through and a greater reality was unveiled. You see in the presence of light darkness always gives way. Darkness is rendered helpless against the elements found in light and eventually, it entirely yields to its superior and unavoidable penetrative power.
Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.”
John 12:36a “'Believe in the light while you have the light, so that you may become children of the light…’"
Matthew 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
- Micah McElveen