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LIGHT AND DARKNESS by Fr Joyzy Pius Egunjobi

 

Have you ever experienced a sudden total darkness? What was your experience? If you can recall, the very moment of sudden darkness shocked you. You may feel a little frightful. Then gradually, you begin to see until you can manage your movement in the very darkness. Such is the life of sinners; from just little sin they graduate into being at home with the total sin. FOR DARKNESS IS NOT NECESSARILY THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT; DARKNESS IS WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE. And DARKNESS IS NOT DARK FOR THOSE WHO LIVE IN DARKNESS. 


All the lovers of iniquities seek darkness in one way or the other. For example, "The eye of the adulterer waits for the nightfall, Saying, 'No eye will see me.' And he disguises his face. In the dark they break into the houses, they shut themselves up by day; they do not know the light (Job 24:15-16). The dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence (Ps 74:20). "For the morning is their darkest hour, because that is when they have to fear (Job 24:17). Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed (Jn.. 3:20).


What happened when there is sudden light? It may equally shock you that you may at first experience short-term blindness. But in a short while, you will be glad and happy you are in the light because light brings freedom and sense of security. There is nothing to fear in the Light for there is no cause for fear if you have not violated the rule of right. Staying in the light is staying in the truth; for whoever lives according to the truth comes into the light so that it can be clearly seen that his works have been done in God (Jn.. 3:21). 


"You were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Behave as children of light;" (Ephesians 5:8) While you have the light, believe in the light and become children of light (John 12:36). May the Life of Christ which is the Light; the Light that shines in darkness and darkness cannot overcome (Jn.. 1:4-5), be a lamp to your feet (Ps 119:105) and lead you to complete truth and safety (cf. Rom 2:19-20). 


Be Blessed.

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