Seeing the Light

Palmer Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado

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Seeing our way through this world can be quite difficult. It can look much like this tangled mess of scrub oak branches.

God calls us in a direction that seems so clear and then we get lost in the stuff of life. We get caught in the tangled mess. The will of God that seemed obvious to us now appears obscured in the darkness.

"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." Isaiah 9:2 English Standard Version

Isaiah spoke to a people who understood the darkness. They had been walking in it for quite sometime. Their darkness looked like wooden sticks and stones made to symbolize the local gods who controlled the harvest. In the tangled mess of idolatry they lost their way.

Isaiah still speaks to a people who understand the darkness. We might not follow gods made of stone and wood. Our idols are made of computer chips and electronic circuits. In technology we trust, and in the tangled mess of our "advanced" culture we lose our way.

God's light still shines for those of us who feel that we have lost our way. He reaches down and shines the light of his love into our day-to-day existence so that we might know the gift of his great light at work among us.

When you stare at today's picture the light draws you past the darkness. The light of God's love in Jesus draws us past the darkness of our tangled lives into his presence.

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