world, so that everyone who believes in him shall not remain in the darkness, but some people just cannot be helped. “They are wild waves of the sea casting up the foam of their own shame,” reads Jude 13; “wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.” Yet even in the Bible, that is not the whole story about darkness. Anyone who knows the story of Abraham remembers the night God led him outside to look at the stars. The old man was deep in doubt about whether God’s promise of children would ever come true. He and his wife Sarah had been waiting so long that hope was
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