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There’s something about it that’s foreboding, frightening, and … dark.<\/p>\nby Zeke Flores<\/p>\n
There’s something about it that’s foreboding, frightening, and … dark.<\/p>\n
Lying alone in the dark can be a dreadful thing. In the darkness, our insecurities find an outlet. We lie awake staring into the blackness, playing our failures in our minds over and over again like a newsreel stuck on repeat. We imagine the failure much worse than it actually is, and we progress the shadowy fantasy into a bleaker and bleaker scenario that robs us of hope and confidence. For many of us, darkness propels us into despair as we consider our self-perceived worthlessness, as blackness seems to surround us with a thick, inky embrace. Yes, darkness is…dark.<\/p>\nBut Christ, like a conquering hero, smashes into the darkness and illuminates it with His love, His person, His work. For all that darkness represents -the insecurity of despair, the fear of hopelessness, the guilt of sin- is forever dispelled in the One who not only dwells in light, but is light Himself.
\nHe delivers us from the gloomy prison and sets us to dwell in love, fellowship, forgiveness, and confidence where the Son forever shines.. Sin, with its brooding dark shadow, is swallowed up in the brightness of Sonlight.\n
So there, darkness. We don’t have to be afraid of you. You’re done.<\/p>\n
“He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins<\/em>” (Colossians 1:13-14).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Zeke Flores There’s something about it that’s foreboding, frightening, and … dark. Lying alone in the dark can be a dreadful thing. In the darkness, our insecurities find an outlet. We lie awake staring into the blackness, playing our failures in our minds over and over again like a newsreel stuck on repeat. 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