Walking in the Light

Though the sun rises, a blanket of darkness still covers the earth.

The sound of war sends refugees to far away lands. Human trafficking enslaves women as used and recycled property. A cloud of depression paralyzes countless souls. Art is either too abstract or exceedingly decadent, neither reflective of reality nor redemptive for humanity. Natural disasters leave homes demolished and families homeless. A fog of loneliness follows the masses to endless episodes of repetitive, uncreative plots on the screen. An epidemic of opiates guts life from fly over country and leaves a generation daily leaning towards overdose and destitution.

Welcome to our world! Ours is a culture affluent yet apathetic. Free yet enslaved. Boundless opportunities yet bored to tears. Everything at our doorstep, yet our ungrateful hearts are empty from glut, and our chaotic minds are inattentive to reality. The very good world God created is now very bad. The vivid hues of the garden are now sepia and stained. Yet there is hope! There is good news! God enters the darkness. In the gloom of this lifelessness, a message of hope arrives unannounced. Hope appears in the likeness of man, but from another place and with a different condition. The qualitative variation is not slight, but infinite, as His presence illuminates the night. Just as shadows dissipate under the all-consuming rays of the sun, so does darkness under the glory of the radiance of God’s Son.

With every shade of grey, there is a glimmer of brighter hope for tomorrow. “For God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:5). No darkness at all. No darkness. None. Just infinite and constant lumens of light. Never-fading. Never-ending. And though the light is blinding, our eyes are wide open to the purifying effect of His love, as His voice is heard saying to us, “Welcome Home. Come out from the darkness, and step into the light.”