When it’s dark outside, you cannot see much at all, even with the stars shining. I’ve used spot lights and headlights to find a missing farm animal and we’ve all stumbled around in a dark room before finding the light switch. Left unchecked, the darkness of our character can deteriorate faster than we could ever imagine. Temptations to enter doors of darkness abound and we can resist allowing light expose how dark it really is. But the light of Jesus entering into our lives penetrates what has never been revealed tk is to anyone. The longer we follow the Light, our darkness is cleaned up into the purity of His presence.
“These prophecies remind us that the coming of Jesus is the result of the unstoppable zeal of a God of glorious redeeming grace. God wouldn’t leave his world in its evil-scarred condition of brokenness. He was unwilling to leave us lost in our sin and in hopeless bondage to the rebellion of our own evil hearts. He wouldn’t let his story end with dark moral failure and the requisite divine judgment.” - Paul David Tripp, Come, Let Us Adore Him: A Daily Advent Devotional
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