What is darkness? Is it the bleak blackness that blots out blotches of light? We may find it fascinating that darkness has not the authority to outshine light, yet is revealed when light leaves. Light's revealing luster vacating literally leaves the vacuum of blackness. The singular definition of darkness is the absence, or reduction of light. Remove light and while there could be an entire universe of items surrounding you, without a glimmer of light you neither know they are present, nor can see the virtual plethora left to only feel, if anything, what immediately surrounds you.
Disorienting darkness, deepens as if plunged into ocean depths or in a coal mine thousands of feet below the earth's surface. As eternal blackness encroaches, solitude, silence and fear begin to overtake senses. Absolute separation from light, any hint of light would send our hearts trembling in turbid turmoil taking us toward insanity.
How often we take for granted that which we 'see'. The revealing nature of sight is dependent upon the light that lands on objects, and those objects absorbing and reflecting the essence and characteristics of the light. Some of the colors of light are absorbed, while the blend of the remaining colors are reflected and as such, we see objects, people and colors. Light is essential to light, essential to sight. While light is a form of energy, nothing shares its unique properties acting as both a particle and a wave. While man can 'create' light, he is only using existing energy in a directed fashion, taming it to change from another form of energy into light, and such light pales to the brute energy production of stars.
Jesus stated that He is "the light of the world." and that "No one comes to the Father except through me." The Father of light. The creator of light. The illuminator of all things. Think about it, we say we live in a time of enlightenment and as I examine the musings and cogitations of brilliant men and women of the past, it seems that our preoccupations and distractions have pressed us into dimming darkness. It is impossible to see the truth without light. It is impossible to have life without light. The dimmer the light, the greater the difficulty to discover or even detect an issue, a glory, a life, an understanding. We surround ourselves by an artificial representative of truth or light and it taints our sight with it's form of colors.
It is time to step out into the glorious light of The Son, allowing Him to reveal the true colors, the true life, the true vitality of His life in ours, His light in ours changing the dimming darkness to radiant, glorious light. I want to be like our moon, having the character and existence of my creator, battered by impacts of my existence, but reflecting only the glorious light of that which reveals His hand, His creation, His essence, for all to see.
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