June 28–Light or Dark?

Happy Thursday! Don’t you love the summertime? Casey and I were lamenting the other day that we both look so forward to summer coming and then as soon as it gets here, we start dreading the end! It’s just the “most wonderful time of the year!” Sun and summer...you can have the cold and snow of winter. 


One of my favorite things to do in the summer (I have a couple of hundred) is to watch kids chase the lightning bugs at dusk. Those bugs light up, the kids run to them. How fun and spontaneous it all is—light attracts those kids every time. 


And we see that everywhere. Light it up and they will come. Las Vegas, the ice cream stand, your porch, it doesn’t matter, light attracts. It’s our nature. We don’t like the dark. Except for those things we don’t want anyone to see. If we are doing something in secret, something wrong, something we don’t want “seen” then we stick to the dark. We stay way from anything that would show anyone else what we are doing. 


In the first chapter of John, we are told that Jesus is the true light and that He came to the very world He created but the world didn’t even recognize Him. But everyone who believed Him gained the right to become a child of God. Jesus, says this about Light and darkness. 


“And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."

‭‭John‬ ‭3:19-21‬ ‭ESV‬‬


Maybe not the best example, but have you ever turned on the lights in a room where there are bugs and they all scatter? Those nasty things hate the light and love the darkness. That’s what I always think of in this passage when I read “people loved the darkness...” Bugs running for cover. 


Love the light. Let men clearly see what’s going on—live and work in truth and reality and there is never any need for cover of darkness. Amen? 


Dear Jesus, you are the Light of the world and you draw all people to you. The Light shines in the darkness and even though darkness has tried to put you out, it never will—you are the Almighty God and King of Glory. We worship you and praise you for who you are. Help us this day to live and work in truth and reality and be drawn to you. We love you and adore you. Amen and amen. 


Love you dear one,

Pam




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