The Speed of Darkness

The light shines through the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. John 1:5 (NLT)

Let’s think about darkness.

It never exists on its own. There is no source for darkness. In our world, while the sun produces light, darkness isn’t produced by anything.

Darkness only exists when light is absent. The ability of darkness to spread and envelop an area is directly proportional to the amount of light present. Darkness only expands at the speed of light’s retreat. In the physical world, darkness spreads at the rate of the sun’s setting and no faster. It is totally subjected to and under the authority of light.

What is true about light and darkness in the material word is exponentially so in the spiritual world. In spiritual realities, darkness (evil) can only prevail where light (God’s presence) is absent. Satan and Jesus cannot coexist. Satan’s dark domain can only thrive when the light of Jesus is missing.

And thus, the only way a soul, a family, a church, city or a nation can be controlled by darkness is when Christ’s light is absent.

Now look at your soul. Is it illuminated by light or shrouded in darkness? Do you have pockets or areas of your life that are secretive? Do you often retreat to the shadows?

Darkness can only exist in those areas of your life where you choose to reject light. Whether you see just a few small pockets of darkness in your life, or even if you have vast regions of your life veiled in darkness, there remains one simple solution: Let in the light.

Jesus will gloriously illuminate any area of your life into which you invite him. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been dark, how cold it is or how many bad things are hiding there in the dark. When you let in Jesus’ light he will immediately transform it.

For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son. Colossians 1:1

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