Today's Daily Lesson comes from 1 John chapter 1 verses 5 through 7:
5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true; 7 but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
In his memoir "And There Was Light" French resistance Jacques Lusseyran tells about the accident which blinded him as a boy and what he learned about life in navigating the world in light and in darkness.
Lusseryran said that after his blinding a sixth sense developed within him which allowed him to sense the size and shape of objects and even "hear" the shadows of trees.
In 1944 Lusseyran was sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp for his work in the French resistance. There Lusseyran said his fear and and anger at the Nazis distorted his senses, and disoriented him in the world. He began tripping over objects and injuring himself in falls. The light which was in him, Lusseyran said, had turned to darkness.
It is a dark world out there. Still dark as I write this morning. But we have a light within us. And we must not allow fear or anger or hatred to take our light away from us.
In love and in courage we can walk in light even while in darkness. We can befriend the darkness. And if we listen closely enough, and open our souls deep and gentle enough, even the shadows will whisper to us their names.
NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year. Tomorrow we will read 2 and 3 John.
Ryon Price is the Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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