I first felt deep physical darkness in a cave outside of Ely when I was just a girl. Recently, when I took some of the Girls House ladies on a tour of a mine in Virginia City, we were plunged into darkness when the guide showed us how miners worked by candlelight in the mine, and then blew out the candle... We couldn't see even our hands directly in front of our faces...
The Bible indicates that people live in spiritual darkness...
And that God is light, and shines light into men's lives...
So this led me to search for what the Bible says about light and darkness...
Daniel 2:22:
"...He reveals deep and hidden things;
He knows what is in the darkness,
and the light dwells with Him."
1 John 1:5:
"...God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."
Isaiah 9:2:
" The people who walked in darkness
have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
on them has light shone."
John 3:19-21:
"And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
John 12:46: "
I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness."
John 8:12:
"Again Jesus spoke to them, saying,'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.' "
Ephesians 5:8:
"...for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord."
Our use of electricity worldwide shows that people prefer to live in light, physically, rather than darkness - who wants to stumble and stub a toe in the darkness? (Who lives where electricity is available, but chooses to use candles instead? And we even pay for it...)
It's my prayer that you will seek spiritual light in your life from the Giver of Light...
