“…the light has come into the world, and
people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the
light, lest his deeds should be exposed.”
-John 3:19-20
“…the people dwelling in darkness have
seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death,
on them a light has dawned."
-Matthew 4:16b
The gospel is good news for those
that have only known darkness. When God gives sight to the blind light dawns
where only darkness was known. In the Incarnation God has turned on the light
of the gospel for those whose entire world was comprised of inky blackness. All
we knew was blindness accorded by a world of deep dark. All we knew and loved
was the comfortable envelope of blackness. Several years ago I remember reading
a National Geographic article about different creatures that live in the depths
of caverns. A picture showed a salamander whose eyes had become completely
blind because it’s home was in the depths of darkness. The darkened world was
all it knew and its eyes had become useless orbs. Day after day after day no
light had broken in to bring functionality to the eye. The salamander knew no
difference. Blackness was its home and It’s world was one of devoid of all
light. In the gospel God has brought light to us. We did not see, nor could we
see, nor would we see. We had become acclimated to darkness, because it is all
we had ever known. This was the environment we knew and loved. And when the
first rays of gospel light come we squint and rub our eyes straining to see for
the first time. Could it be that we’ve been so blind for so long? It is as if
we’ve entered a whole new world. In the Incarnation God brings light into our
darkness. For once in our lives we begin to see with clarity, and this is
because God has brought light into our darkness.
-DJM
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