December 15, 2018
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shone.” – Isaiah 9:2
I know what it feels like to walk in a land where people dwell in darkness. It’s a hidden darkness, one that the normal eye would never recognize. But the eyes that the Spirit gives to me as a daughter of the King recognize it. It’s in the people next to me on the train, it slinks through families ripping them apart, it resides in the deepest places of their minds and whispers “none of this has any meaning.” The darkness is not palpable in this land that I’m in. It’s rampant. And I sit here and think of the world before Jesus entered into all of this mess and I think I have maybe a tiny glimpse of what it was like.
Yet, even in this darkness He gives us glimpses of this light. He sets His children in specific places at specific times to be beacons for His name, and those that are seeking are drawn to that light. This Christmas, no matter what darkness we may be walking through, the Promised Savior has defeated it once and for all. We have seen His great light and that is what pushes us through this momentary darkness. That Bethlehem night was proof that even the darkest and lowliest of places are still infiltrated by the infinite and glorious light of our God.
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