Darkness

"In Him was life.... The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it."

--John 1: 4, 5

One morning sudden fog blanketed a section of the freeway near where my husband and I lived. Before minutes had passed, over 60 vehicles had smashed into one another with a number of fatalities. I remember one driver commenting on the news "I couldn't see anything. All I heard was the crunch of metal smashing and twisting into metal."

I think about that sometimes when I read my bible. Scripture frequently uses the picture of darkness to describe a world lost in unbelief. Man doesn't believe he's driving in the fog though. He thinks the sun is bright in his world and the road is safe. He even thinks at times he can create his own light if needed. But the more he tries to light up his way with the kind of person he tries to be, and the kind of things he tries to do, the denser the darkness becomes. He steps on the gas, not even realizing he's heading for a horrible crash scene.

I think the "fog" of unbelief will be here until the world ends. But I don't have to drive in it. There's light for me, John calls this light... "life" and its found only in Jesus.

I'll probably be thinking about what exactly that means for days. "What is life in Jesus?"... "what does it mean to live with Jesus?" I'm not sure I have any idea, but I know I want to.. I'm excited to!