Darkness is the absence of light. Darkness has come to symbolize a lot of things, usually bad. The actions of a lost, sinful world brought on that darkness on that Friday when Jesus died for us all. The writer of Luke shares the testimony of those who were there and experienced the absence of light after all the pain and cruelty that Jesus suffered for us.
You and I have been in places of dark brought on by our thoughts or actions, places so dark we've even thought that our prayed could not pierce that darkness. But we have been wrong. If nothing else this Lenten Journey should have taught us that God hears and answers all prayers, even those offered at the bottom of the ocean in the belly of a whale. There is no darkness that God's light cannot pierce.
PRAYER: God of love and light, pierce through what the world sees as defeat to the light of victory; a victory over sin and death, even my sin and my death. In the Name of He who is worthy, Jesus my Lord, amen.
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