Light In The Darkness

I am beginning to fear there is something seriously wrong with me. I have lost patience with the news media. I cast a skeptical eye at most everything I read. I am starting to believe this world is headed on a downhill slope from which there is no recovery. And I missed out on Girl Scout Cookies. Thin mints, people, thin mints…

The main problem is I have no desire to leave the rabbit hole. I find myself shaking hands with that hookah smoking caterpillar every single time I turn on the news. I am sympathizing with the Red Queen (“Off with his head!”). I am wanting to drink the Kool Aid, open the package and devour the “Eat Me” wafer inside. In truth, I believe the characters from Alice in Wonderland are chomping up my newsfeed and have facilitated a hostile takeover on my news outlets. The world has gone mad.

I don’t mean to indicate there’s no hope. As long as the world endures, there’s hope for salvation of people. Yet, even though people may still come to Christ, I fear society never will. We are lost in a gross darkness the Bible warns us about. So what are we Christians gonna do about it? When I examine the truth of God’s Word, I realize that what I just wrote could easily be misinterpreted. Jesus is the Light of the World. This is know and this I firmly trust in and believe. So…why all the darkness? Why the madness? Why the hatred? Why the ignorance of right and wrong? Why?

“Why” is a question we humans have asked throughout the centuries, and to not much avail. We want to know. We seek knowledge and we seek order. We seek these things because God is an orderly God and God is an intelligent God. We were created to seek these things. We were created to know good. We were not created to know evil. And there’s the rub, my friends. With the fall of humankind, we instantly went from innocents to corruption. We knew nothing of murder, death, disease, lying, stealing, cheating, and perversion. Yet, with two single gestures (two humans who just couldn’t keep their mouths off that figurative apple), we traded innocence for depravity. In all honestly, I believe Adam and Eve had no idea of what they had just sacrificed. But the serpent did. He knew the far-reaching consequences of their actions, and he reveled in it. And he’s been reveling ever since, attempting to get us to hand over our rightful inheritance to his supplanted one. He is the thief, the liar, the murderer and we humans learned our lessons well at his feet.

As I sit here writing this, I am reminded of one thing: Even though the world is dark, light and dark cannot occupy the same space at the same time. When we turn on the light, it is no longer dark. That seems relatively simple-minded, but the concept is an absolute one. We humans are capable of producing a light that casts little to no shadows. But unplug that light and the darkness returns. With the Light of God, there is no off switch. That Light is eternal and it is always on, burning brightly, shining for the world to see. There may be gross darkness covering the earth and the people of the earth, but it doesn’t have to overtake us. There is Light in the rabbit hole.

God bless!