Are You Pursuing Light or Darkness?

© 2018 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

On day one of creation, God created light and separated it from darkness.  This astounding act established light and darkness as pictures of life and death, showing that the two are incompatible.

God also created “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” He commanded Adam, father of humanity, not to eat of it.  Eating it would bring death (Genesis 2:9-17).  However, Satan soon tempted Adam and Eve to disobey, thereby plunging themselves and their descendents into spiritual death.  A few years later, their physical bodies also died (Genesis 5:5).

Scripture reveals that God the Son, Jesus Christ, is the spiritual life illustrated by physical light.

“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:4)

But mankind forfeited life and became lovers of darkness and death.

“And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19)

God the Son, Jesus Christ, is the only one who can restore spiritual life to a spiritually dead person.

“Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8:12)

Without this life-giving light of Jesus, fallen mankind strives to depart from God’s “light of life.”  They seem unaware that God, through death, can eternally sentence them to the darkness they pursue.  Death brings final eternal darkness to the unbeliever.  On a worldwide basis, we see people daily embracing darkness and rejecting God’s righteous commands.

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: … they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.” (Galatians 5:19-21).

God the Son sacrificially offered Himself, a sinless blood sacrifice, and rose again, to bear sin’s penalty for His people.  However, those who continue to love darkness will find themselves sentenced to it, forever.

“But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:12)

Are you leading folks toward light or darkness?

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