Today's daily lesson comes from Psalm 74 verse 16:
"Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you have established the heavenly lights and the sun."
Darkness belongs.
We love the light and want the light and intuitively know that "God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all," (John 1:5).
And yet, the darkness still belongs. It is a part of our world; and it is a part of us. We are not to try to deny it or push it away, but rather to live with it, to be gentle with it, and, if possible, to befriend it.
In fact, the ultimate gift of living by the light gives us is the gift of walking even in the dark.
"Those who walk by the day see by the light of this world," Jesus said. And that is a gift of God. But Jesus was going to dark Gethsemane where there would be no light -- not from this world, anyway.
We do love and desire the light; sunny days are our favorites. But darkness is also a part of the journey -- a necessary part, which also belongs and has its own things to teach and gifts to give.
Neither the darkness of this world nor the darkness of our ourselves is to be denied, nor feared, nor run away from, but rather accepted, embraced, and walked toward. For the only way to really fully trust our light is to dare to enter into the fullness of our dark.
God's is the day; and also the night.
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