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Monday, December 16, 2024
We tend to take light for granted 24 hours a day but we really only realize what a blessing it is when we don’t have it and we need it!
Have you ever been on a snowy road at night where there are no streetlights and you can just see (thanks to your headlights) some dried grass sticking up through the snow showing you where the edges of the road are? I had a 30 mile commute to work in Eastern Washington (years ago) where this was the case. It was great when there was a full moon reflecting off the snow.
I don’t experience power outages too frequently where I live now (between a couple of dams on the Columbia) but I have been places where I have not had electricity for a very long time following a storm! At those times, it really helps to have a candle, or several, and some battery operated lanterns.
Sometimes, in this world, people experience a darkness that can’t be fixed by the flick of a working light switch. For this kind of darkness, the Bible tells us that Jesus is the Light of the World:
You, Lord, keep my lamp burning;
my God turns my darkness into light.
Psalm 18:28 (NIV)
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8: 12 (NIV)