July 19, 2019
                                                    Swaddled in Darkness

This evocative phrase coined by T.S. Elliot in the 20th century describes our culture of the 21st century. This should not surprise us given that over the past 60 years we have watched what C.S. Lewis described in The Abolition of Man; man as a moral being is being terminated.
It should not surprise us that modern man, let alone postmodern man, is morally bankrupt. It is like removing a vital organ and expecting the person to live. When we remove the Biblical doctrine of God and the Biblical doctrine of man, we often find man being defined as simply material. It is as B.F. Skinner the famed behaviorist declared a generation ago; there is no difference between a rat and a radish, a man and a dog.

Watson and Crick, the alleged discoverers of the double helix of DNA, advanced the argument that no newborn infant has the right to be called human or a person until it has passed certain endowment tests.
As Jose Ortega Ye Gasset declared in a similar situation: "What has happened to us is that we do not know what has happened to us, and that is what has happened to us, not to know what has happened to us."
However, as Christians we do know what has happened to us and our society and we have been given instructions - orders if you will - of what we are to do. We are to walk in the light. We are to expose the darkness. (Eph. 5) I take it there is a cause effect relationship. As we walk in the light we will expose the dark. There is no promise that the darkness will be pleased. In fact, the world and the devil will be dis-pleased, and we will find ourselves in spiritual warfare. (Eph. 6)
How will you be light today? Scripture gives us the source of such brilliance.
  • Be being filled with the Spirit. - Eph. 5
  • Let the word of Christ dwell richly in you. - Col. 3; Eph. 3
  • Walk in the Spirit - Gal. 5
  • Be led by the Spirit - Gal. 5
  • Being filled with the fulness of God - Eph. 3
We have all we need for life and godliness...even in a godless world that is swaddled in darkness. We the Church are here to illuminate with the light to expose the darkness.
As Jesus said, "You are the light of the world." (Matt. 5:14)
"Let your light shine bright before men that they might see you good works and glorify your Father in heaven." (Matt. 5:16)

Serving Him with you
Until He comes for us,
Fred