It's Saturday; it's snowing. Didn't we just do this last weekend? The world is a dark place. Not from absence of sunlight, or because of the snow. It is dark from the sin covering the land. The easiest and fastest ways to get the things people need and want usually involve sin. Hard work and patience in many circumstances are not possible. How does one living in the city work hard at a job that doesn't exist? Do you dare tell her that hard work is all she needs when no job offer has arrived for five long years? Some folks are in those very circumstances, and the long-term unemployment checks will soon end. But people hurting financially is only the tiny tip of the iceberg when it comes to the darkness ruling the world.
How do God's children reach thankfulness in the dark? For one thing we are not grateful for the world beating people up in every which way that it does. We must look to God. We learn to be grateful in the dark, not for the darkness. We have a great hope in Christ!
The people who walked in darkness
Have seen a great light;
Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death,
Upon them a light has shined. (Isaiah 9:2)
The great light of Jesus has shined in our lives. For this we are grateful. Jesus walks with us in this darkness, for He will never leave us nor forsake us. That prophecy from Isaiah isn't just for Christmas, kids. We have the light shining in us now, and a sacred duty to share it. Thank You, dear Lord Jesus for your great lovingkindness in this darkness of the world.
Bucky
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