I drove over to the store this evening, down the streets and around the corners.
The lights, colours of Christmas twinkled in velvet of the darkness, jewels - a rainbow strung over homes and gardens around windows and trees. Royal purples - amethyst hues, ruby reds, sapphire blues, soft opal whites, emerald greens, topaz yellows, all blinking in the night.
The colours call light out of darkness.
This is what I want desperately in my life - light in the midst of darkness.
For God, who said, "Light shall shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (2 Cor. 4:6)
The face of Christ, the babe in manger, our Christmas light.
This is the Christmas light that I need, and I find Him....Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light....(1 Pet. 2:9)
Oh, shine your beam of marvelous light into this heart of mine. Let the darkness, the hurt, the anguish, melt in warmth of your light. Shine, sweet babe. Shine, Risen Saviour. Shine.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it” (John 1:5 ESV)
December 3, 2011
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