Today's Daily Lesson comes from John chapter 20 verse 1:
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
"While it was still dark . . ."
I love that phrase. It is powerful and hope-filled and even more so at the end of the book of John which began by saying that the "Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."
The darkness has not, and cannot overcome the light. And, into the dark, the light shines.
It is still dark while I write this; but the light is on its way. The light is shines, but will take some time to arrive as the first ray of crack of dawn. It is still dark now, but the light that will pierce the curtain of a new day is already shining.
And the one who is the Very Light of Very Light shines the same.
God does not abandon us in the darkness. God is still at work in the night. And though we may not yet see the coming of the Light, the Light is on its way, will soon be reveal, and will soon reveal.
Hold your hopes, dear ones struggling in the darkness; for the earth is still spinning and that means the night won't last forever.
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year. Tomorrow we read Acts chapters 1-3.
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