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Topic: light (05/24/04)
TITLE: Wake up.
By Mark Bonner
05/27/04
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I don't know about you, but I love that half-light just before sunset when things take on a richness of reds and oranges and dark, dark shadows; places where lovers can sit and just be while the world around them sinks into whatever it is that it sinks into. I don't know if you love that time, but I do know that God does not. He tells us clearly to let our light so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our father who is in heaven. He says that we, as men, hate the light and prefer darkness. He tells us not to hide our light under a bushel but to blaze like a lighthouse on a hilltop, giving light to the whole house.

I also love the dawn, the whole awakening thing with birds and dew and chill. God loves this time; it is in line with His will: waking up to gaze at the awesome son, oops, that should be sun, oops, no it shouldn't be. The son of God has come to us and we watch Him, like the sun, rise and fall in us. We love to see him come anew and fill all things like the light from the sun filling the sky, but, if we are honest, we also like to see him fall. Oh we don't call it that, we are Christians and we always want what God wants, but we love the "freedom" and "liberty" that the gospel brings to us, and, if that means that our faith hiccups along the way, well, what's a hiccup? We are only investigating, not entering into a pact with the devil. And the light that is in us, dims a little. And we move just a little further away from the source of the light where we feel uncomfortable. And the son goes down and there is richness (in sin) and heaviness (of spirit) and darkness in the world.

Wake up! While it is still day, wake up. Clothe ourselves with light. Recognise the passion that sent Jesus into the depths of our darkness to shine his light into our lives. Wake up.