From Darkness Unto Light
Once I walked in spiritual
darkness. I was blinded by the night around me. I could not see. I
could not believe, and I had no hope. I was like the vast majority of
people in the world today who walk in spiritual darkness, and without
any real purpose for living and without hope.
How great is that darkness which
enshrouds the world in its thick cloud of evil and hopelessness and
despair! How sad it is that so many who profess themselves to be
wise in the wisdom of the world have become fools, and declare that
there is no God! Some of those who are leaders in our government
who claim to be highly educated and possess great qualities of
leadership are walking in gross darkness and leading us astray. “For
the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led
of them are destroyed.” Isaiah 9:16
It seems that the great curtain of
night has been drawn on this great land of ours. There are countless
numbers of men and women, boys and girls, and young people who
admittedly have no real joy, no hope, for anything better in their
lives than a mere animal existence. They have been taught from birth
to worship the gods of self, and money, and self esteem.
Spiritual darkness causes many to
stumble. “The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at
what they stumble.” Proverbs 4: 19. Those who are embedded in the
darkness stumble over moral issues, and not being able to discern
right from wrong, make wrong decisions concerning pro-choice,
resulting in the murder of millions of unborn babies by abortion.
Because of spiritual darkness, many have abandoned the traditional
family values of one man with one woman united together by God in
holy matrimony for life. Because of spiritual darkness, bible
reading and prayer has been abandoned in the government schools
system and replaced with armed guards necessary to prevent children
from trying to solve their problems by killing one another.
How great is that darkness which
covers our land when in the name of “policital correctness”, the
name of Jesus Christ is forbidden to be mentioned , even on his own
birthday, and our attention directed to some pagan god or goddess,
to honor them instead, and call it a happy holiday.
Those who persist to walk in
darkness do so because they love the darkness, and they love all the
evil that is present in the darkness. Because of the darkness, some
people would rather spend their time in a dark dingy barroom, crying
over their beer, so to speak, than to be among those who have been
snatched out of the darkness and have entered into the light of
eternal life.
“But if thine eye be evil, thy
whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is
in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”Matthew 6: 23 “And
this is the condemnation that light is come into the world, and men
loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.”
John 3: 19
Mankind does not have to dwell in
spiritual darkness and remain in the spiritual eternal night of evil
and sin, for light has come into the world. “The people that
walked in darkness have seen a great light. They that dwell in the
land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shinned.”
Isaiah 9:2
“For unto us a child is born,
unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his
shoulder; and his name shall be called wonderful, counselor, the
mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of peace.”Isaiah
9:6.
Jesus Christ is the light of the
world. “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
John 1:4.
Dear reader, if today you are
dwelling in the darkness of spiritual night, if you have no joy, no
peace, no hope for an eternal future in heaven with God – reach out
to the one who came into the world to snatch us out of darkness, and
receive by faith the great gift of love he has offered to all who
will believe and trust him. This is what Christmas is all about.
When we walk in the light as he is in the light we have new spiritual
sight, and we can see things by faith the way he sees them, and we
come to realize that he is not willing for us to remain in darkness,
but to live forever in the glory of his eternal light.
From the book - "Morning Thoughts And Meditations" - By: Robert A. Searles - all rights reserved
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