LIGHT SUCCEEDING DARKNESS IS THE METAPHOR THROUGH WHICH GOD SPEAKS TO THE CHILDREN OF ADAM AND EVE
The light of forgiveness erupts from the darkness of the Crucifixion as the dawn erupts from the night.
God embedded into the very fabric of reality a living, breathing, regularly recurring metaphor through which he speaks to us. It is a grand metaphor.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Genesis 1:1-5)
As the day displaces the night, listen to our God.
Out of the depths of the darkness of the Crucifixion, Jesus launched the fireball of forgiveness (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34 )(Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35) (Luke 7:47) to illuminate the darkness of our understanding of God in a glorious burst of epiphany. He revealed God to us with an awesome and spectacular display of celestial fireworks. The light displaced the darkness, the day displaced the night.
The night is the evil that we did to Jesus, evil both brutal and lethal. On the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection, we tortured and killed the God who loves us. We made the God who loves us suffer and die. We fed the flesh and blood of the God who loves us into the mouth of the monster of the Crucifixion. The teeth of the monster chewed the God who loves us up into bits and pieces. The tongue of the monster was as sharp as its teeth. It taunted the God who loves us about the direness of his predicament. “Despair! Abandon hope! You are alone and forsaken. Nobody is coming to rescue you” (Matthew 27:42 - 46). The weight of his dire predicament became heavier and heavier with each bite of the monster. The absence of a savior pushed Jesus to the edge of despair. He cried out, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me"(Matthew 27:46)?
The day is his gentle answer to the evil that we did to him. He forgave us (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34 )(Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35) (Luke 7:47). The light of forgiveness erupted out of the darkness of the Crucifixion as the dawn erupts from the darkness.
“The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up” (Matthew 4:16)(2 Peter 1:19).
Only our God has the genius to insert such a powerful metaphor at the time the world was created in anticipation of the fireworks of forgiveness (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34 )(Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35) (Luke 7:47) emerging out of the darkness of the Crucifixion.
Listen to what our God is saying to the children of Adam and Eve as the day follows the night. Linger not in the darkness. The light follows the darkness without fail as surely as the day follows the night. The succession of light from darkness is the source of our confidence in our God. Trust in the light. Wait for the light. The coming of the light is ineluctable. It steamrolls the darkness.
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