The Eighteenth and Eight More Days

 Rank on Rank the Host of Heaven,

Spreads its Vanguard on the the way,

As the Light of lights descendeth,

From the realms of endless day;

That the powers of hell may vanish,

As the darkness flees away.

   God is not only the Light of lights, but has come to chase away the darkness. I love the analogy of God to light, because it reminds me that God's power is infinite, and cannot be conquered. What I mean by this, is that when you open the door to a dark closest, the darkness does not come out and flood the light room, instead the light comes and floods the dark closet. Light is a fascinating, mysterious entity on earth, and darkness is not a thing it itself, merely the absence of a thing; light. This is to me an apt demonstration God and evil, God is not one force and the powers of evil another, waging war with each other, instead, it is God and the absence of God, an absence created by creatures who want nothing to do with God and allowed by God for the time being. 

       But now the light has come. And we are its lanterns. God's light dwells in us, and where ever we go we have the ability to dispel the darkness, not by efforts of our own, but simply by allowing Christ's light to shine through us. What a glorious privilege, my friends. 

   .....And it all started with one little light born in one little baby in one little town of Bethlehem....Sometimes when I think about it, God's methods confound me....I certainly wouldn't have chosen to do it that way, would you? 

       As we think on this wond'rous truth, as we reflect on God's light, let's pause and listen to this beautiful work by Kim Andre Arnesen, "His Light in Us."