Are you afraid of the dark? No, this is not about brownouts nor power shortage problems nor any Meralco project and their stupid award for the most lighted house this Christmas as if saying that it’s all right to waste electricity despite much demise they deliver afterwards. This is about darkness and how it is always associated to evil forces and the like. Much to my surprise, others would see dusk as the time when demonic forces turn out in their supremacy over us. Devoting darkness as an attribute of the evil is not just contributions by mere beliefs of the old folklores but our contemporary movies as well as they show frightening creatures manifesting themselves in the darkness of the night. Others would even assume that to be born or to die as the sun is about to set is not so pleasing and for others, bad luck. Now, if night is meant to be an attribute of evil, why have God chosen the longest of them to be the time of Christ’s birth? Well, at least, why have he allowed it to be celebrated on Christmas Eve?
Always remember: If God is indeed a God, He holds supremacy over all, even in the darkness.
Let us just figure it out in simple terms: Christmas lights would not be much appreciated unless it is placed in the dark, a candle too would be senseless if not amidst darkness. Jesus Christ in His turn was born amidst darkness to prove one thing, that God is supreme over all. And yes, He rules even out of darkness. Clive Staples Lewis seeks to give an answer through his analysis on the problem of pain which is quite similar to that of St. Thomas Aquinas’ answer to the problem of evil. The question would necessarily project the argument that if God ever existed, there would be no evil and no pain since He would lord over all and hence, evil or pain cannot exist. The answer would be as simple as saying that God is so good that even out of evil or pain, He seeks to bring out goodness. I’ll just say that God is so good that even out of darkness, He dared to shed light upon mankind and that most beautiful light that is no other than Jesus.
So the next time that you’re caught upon the dark, just remember that light would not look in its best without darkness.
Always remember: If God is indeed a God, He holds supremacy over all, even in the darkness.
Let us just figure it out in simple terms: Christmas lights would not be much appreciated unless it is placed in the dark, a candle too would be senseless if not amidst darkness. Jesus Christ in His turn was born amidst darkness to prove one thing, that God is supreme over all. And yes, He rules even out of darkness. Clive Staples Lewis seeks to give an answer through his analysis on the problem of pain which is quite similar to that of St. Thomas Aquinas’ answer to the problem of evil. The question would necessarily project the argument that if God ever existed, there would be no evil and no pain since He would lord over all and hence, evil or pain cannot exist. The answer would be as simple as saying that God is so good that even out of evil or pain, He seeks to bring out goodness. I’ll just say that God is so good that even out of darkness, He dared to shed light upon mankind and that most beautiful light that is no other than Jesus.
So the next time that you’re caught upon the dark, just remember that light would not look in its best without darkness.
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