The people living in darkness have seen a great light...
Are you afraid of the dark? I'm not afraid of the dark, but I don't care for it too much. At night when my son cries for me and I am trying to hurry to comfort him, the dark annoys me because it slows me down. If I am in a dark parking lot at night I feel afraid because I feel vulnerable to being attacked.
There is another kind of darkness, and that is a spiritual darkness. Jesus came to shine light on that darkness. What is spiritual darkness? Well, for someone who does not know Jesus it often shows itself as confusion, anger, depression, self-indulgence... and for those who do know Jesus, darkness tries to attack in those same ways. Darkness also attacks the believe by drawing them away from the light, which is Christ, and deeper into dark places.
I am writing this devotion for my mom because our world has been turned upside down with the illness of my father. As we watch cancer take him from us, darkness is trying to blind me to the love and light of Christ. I am constantly getting into the word, so I can be wrapped in God's light.
When Jesus started his ministry we see that he preached the good news of the kingdom of heaven. It is so important to remember when darkness tries to overtake us, and in my case distract me with death, there is a light that breaks through that darkness and the darkness CAN NOT overtake it!
Read today's passage at Biblegateway Matthew 4:12-25
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