Friday, July 6, 2012
A Car Ride with Jesus: Light in the Darkness
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Some of my favorite times
with God are when I am driving from here to there during the craziness of my
day. God has so ministered to my heart during these times, often bringing
things to my mind that I need to work through or even ideas for projects I am working
on at school.
Last fall, I was driving
home and just letting my mind wander as I drove down the dark lanes of the 17
and I thought to myself how beautiful the lights were in the darkness. My mind
shifted to memories of Christmas lights and how I was always enraptured by the
beauty of a lit up Christmas tree in the dark stillness of a home. My heart
just loves the simple beauty of light! My mind then shifted to a passage in the
prologue of John that we had just read in my Greek class that week.
It says, “ In Him was life, and the
life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
did not comprehend it.” (John 1:4-5).
Can
I just say that I love my Greek class…it is a ton of work but I have learned so
much about the absolute stunning beauty and clarity of the God’s Word. I
remember reading this in class and thinking that the battle is already won. We
know this from Revelation, but here we see that Jesus is the Light and the
darkness could not comprehend it. Another way to say this is that the darkness
cannot contain the light. They will always stand in opposition to one another.
I remember being blown away by the reality that I have nothing to fear. Jesus
is light and the darkness of the world can’t contain Him. Because I have the Holy Spirit is in me, I will always stand in opposition to the darkness
but it will not be able to comprehend, contain, or even ultimately destroy me.
Then,
as I am sitting in the car, thinking about the simplistic beauty of Christmas lights
in the darkness, it hit me even more fully. We might not know why we find
candlelit dinners or Christmas lights so beautiful, but our hearts do. Deep
down, we find something beautiful about lights in darkness. Perhaps without us
even knowing, we are drawn to the beauty of God’s work in our lives; that He
sent His son into the world to bring redemption to humankind. And that timeless
truth of that sacrifice will always shine as a light in the darkness.
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