The Light That Disperses the Darkness

‘Darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over all the peoples’ (Isa 60:2).  Man’s sin is universal.  None can escape its clutches.  It covers the earth like a blanket of darkness.  Bringing along with it the gloom and depression that accompanies such darkness.

Where is the hope for mankind?  Is it in the programs of governments and kingdoms?  Is it to be found in the power and might of economies or armies?  No, all of these can fall, as we have seen so many examples in the last century and even very recently.  The landscape of the world’s kingdoms change.  Borders are realigned and economies fail.  None of these can stand against the darkness and provide the hope for deliverance that is needed.

‘But the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you’.  ‘Who is this Lord?  Who is this King of Glory’  It is and always has been Christ, the Messiah who was Jesus in the flesh.  Our deliverance is found in Him and only in Him.

‘Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.’  The darkness is dispersed by the brilliant light of the glory of God.  It cannot comprehend such light and must fail and give way to this glory.  This is not only so for the world in total, but for you as an individual.  Our deliverance, your deliverance from darkness like a shroud, is found in the Light, the Lord of Glory, God himself, Jesus the Christ.

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