We are walking in the season of light, in the season of darkness.
As I sit in the quiet of my living room, taking in the light of the Christmas tree, I am amazed at the light it provides, how such dainty bulbs can illuminate the room on such a dark night.
Christmas is about the light of the life of Christ, illuminating a world in the midst of the darkest darkness … a world filled with and ruled by sin.
Sin is a hard thing to talk about. It is not an in word to use. It doesn’t feel good, because other, uncomfortable words accompany it. Words like guilt and shame. Those are the darkest of words to one’s soul.
It is not that they are the wrong things to accompany sin, for they belong together perfectly.
The good news is that when Christ came, as that babe in Bethlehem, he did so to take away our guilt, our shame, our sin. His birth, his life, pushed away the darkness of our guilt, and shame and sin. He lit with world with his light, illuminating all the dark corners of our life.
John 1:5 reminds us,
“The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness has not overcome it.”
The darkness still has not overcome it.
Sure the world has dark corners, sad world events, politics that make us shake our heads, sickness that … makes us sick, heartaches that carry the weight of the world, relationships that just seem impossible …
and then Jesus comes, and says, “I’m possible”,”my light is still shining” …
and the darkness … it still has not overcome it.
Look toward the light, it’s still shining.
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