The danger of darkness is that it de-evolves us, making us less than the being that God intended us to be. We all have days when we are "down.", some of us even suffer from clinical depression, some are grieving. It is our response to the darkness, to the hopelessness, that can send us spiraling down or can lift us. It's not easy. There are many very real things to be overwhelmed and discouraged by. The question we must ask, at such times, is whether lingering in the doubt, the grief, the despair, serves a purpose. To me the devil prefers to play there in the darkness, in doubt and despair, and staying there too long, merely increases the power it holds over us.
Can you imagine the hopelessness on the day of Jesus's crucifixion? Can you imagine the darkness the world felt. Alone, after losing the "light of the world.".
"Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." Matthew 27:45
Yet even in this dark time, the torn curtain portrays the offering of salvation for all through Jesus's death. How is Easter morning portrayed? Through the bright and shining light of morning!
It is against the backdrop of the Easter story that we can best understand the spiritual path we must walk when confronted with darkness and hopelessness in our lives. The torn curtain is hope, an opportunity, a shimmer of light shining in the darkness, although no one at the time recognized it as such. The bright Easter morning suggests that all is not lost, and never had been. After the darkness comes the light.
Hugs to each of you. Walk a path that uplifts you and also others. Let the light shine in you.
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