Jeremiah 11-14: God Is Light

Hear and pay attention,
   do not be arrogant,
   for the LORD has spoken.
Give glory to the LORD your God
   before he brings the darkness,
before your feet stumble
   on the darkening hills.
You hope for light,
   but he will turn it to thick darkness
   and change it to deep gloom. - Jer. 13:15-16 NIV

Sometimes when we think it can't get any worse, we don't realize that a greater darkness lies just around the corner.  Jeremiah could see it although his compatriots and others around him thought he was daft and even plotted to kill him because of what he heard from the Lord.  But Jeremiah's word were not without hope.  'Give glory to the Lord your God,' he told them. 'Give him glory before the darkness comes.  Give glory to the one who is light.'

Give glory to the only one who can turn darkness into light, who can turn mourning into dancing.  Give glory to the one in whom there is no darkness at all.  Give glory to the one who instead is an island of light in a sea of darkness.  Give glory to him and the darkness fades away.  Even today, there is an antidote for all of the darkness that we see around us.  There is hope.  There is the truth as proclaimed by one who walked closely with God's son, the truth of one who had seen God in the flesh.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. - 1 John 1:5

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