Depravity. It courses through my veins, tempting me to do wrong. It's what Adam awoke in the world when his teeth sank into the skin and flesh of that forbidden fruit. Darkness of the soul was born and was destined to devour every future human heart.
It was determined to eat us alive. Alive, but dead.
But then the Light came. He gave up everything to which He had a right and emptied Himself to walk among, touch, serve, and teach hateful people.
In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. John 1:4
People, though, even His own, did not accept or receive Him. It had been foretold to them that He was coming and what He would be like.
But only a remnant chose to see Who He really was.
All the while, the darkness worked to deceive, entrap, and destroy.
There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man. He was in the world, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and those were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name. John 1:9-11
The Light rescued us, me, from what we could never overpower on our own, because Light overpowers darkness. It isn't possible for darkness to overpower Light. Never has been. Never will be.
This Light came to us as a wee baby in an animal dwelling. He wasn't a mighty king in the way they expected.
Yet He was and is the mightiest of Kings.
Let us celebrate Him who saved us from the darkness of evil. Let us take time to reflect on what we are capable of, the lowest depths we would cower in now had the Light not come to rescue us, and rejoice in the victory in which we are free to walk!
Happy Birthday, Jesus Christ, our Light!
Nor for brightness will the moon give you light;
But you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,
And your God for your glory.
Your sun will no longer set,
Nor will your moon wane;
For you will have the Lord for an everlasting light,
And the days of your mourning will be over. Isaiah 60:19-20
