The simplest scientific definition of darkness in the physical world is “the absence of light.” Light is only absent in the physical world when obstructed or blocked by something. The only reason there is night is because we are in the shadow of the earth when the sun is shining on the opposite side. The only reason there is darkness in a cave at high noon is because there is solid rock all around. Darkness in the physical world exists not because light has stopped shining but because it inherently occupies places that are inside or behind the shadows. When we are not walking with God we are walking in spiritual darkness. We reside in the dark caves of sin or the overwhelming shadow of death that is a result of sin. There are many who love the darkness rather than the Light because they choose blindness over seeing. They choose the path of lies that never leads to satisfaction but leads to the same dark place of appetite they started from. Tell me, when was the last time you ate a meal and were content to never eat again? When was the last time you acted on sexual impulse and never felt lust again? You don’t have to look far to see the progression of sin and death in this world. It is an endless cycle of consumption that never satisfies as certain as “fire never says, “it is enough !” (proverbs 30:16)
The message of the Cross of Jesus Christ is Light:
1 John 1:5–7 (NKJV) – This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
And,
John 3:21 (NKJV) – But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
In other words it’s time to come out of the caves and from behind the shadows of the world and be exposed in the Light of God’s great love for you! There is no condemning judgment of God in the future for those who are constantly in the Light of His ever present grace!
