Lenten Devotion Day 42
LIGHT
For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light.
Live as children of light— for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true.
Ephesians 5:8-9
God is light, in whom there is no darkness at all.
Jesus Christ is the light of the world.
And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world,
and we loved darkness rather than light.
(UMC Book of Worship: Service of Tenebrae)
These words of greeting struck me to the core yesterday. Their truth still has me reeling a bit today - dizzy with a reality that I would much rather deny. In the beginning...God created...let there be light...and it was good. There is no denying the goodness of light. It bring us warmth, illumination, photosynthesis, as well as understanding, clarity, and guidance. For these reasons and more, Jesus is called Light.
God created light, God is Light, God sent Light
Light for the world
And we loved darkness rather than light.
The truth still cuts doesn't it? Light is found in all that is good, right and true....yet we are drawn to that which is bad, wrong and false. We choose to lurk in the shadow - uncommitted to step fully into light and live as children of that light. We have every excuse in the book as if we have developed a sudden sensitivity to light that requires we never enter it would glasses to shield our eyes and an umbrella of shadow to hid behind. The Light shows too much truth for our comfort, shames us with too much good in light of our weakness, and challenges us with too much right for all of our wrongs.
Christ
Light of the World
Rising on that Easter morning for all eternity
Offering each of us the chance to rise also
Into the Light
And we loved darkness rather than light.
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