The Light Shines
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The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” John 1:5.
The candle lighting service-
-is a beautiful moment of our church’s Christmas Eve celebration.
When all the lights are out in the Sanctuary-
– we light a single candle, and that one candle overcomes all the darkness of the entire room.
It’s a wonderful demonstration of this fact-
– darkness cannot overpower light.
It’s the same with spiritual darkness and spiritual light of Jesus Christ.
His Light will overpower the darkness.
There have been times in history where it seemed like the spiritual darkness was overpowering the spiritual light.
One example was in the 20th century-
– when Marxism had great momentum.
The Soviet revolution, then the Communist revolution in China, then Cuba, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia soon tumbled after.
It seemed like that darkness of atheism was overpowering the light within the church.
But by the end of the 20th century, the Soviet Union was no more.
Eastern Europe became the birthplace of many fledgling democracies.
Even though it sometimes seems darkness wins for a time-
– it never permanently overpowers the Light.
Of course, the greatest example of that is the cross.
For a moment, it appeared that the devil had won.
But three days later-
– the Light was turned on,
– never to be snuffed out again.
For in the end-
– the Light of Jesus always overpowers the darkness.
(PR)