We are Covered in darkness

'And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.'

John 3:13-21

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Light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light- because their deeds were evil. Every one that doeth evil hates the light.

When we think of evil we don't think or all evil.  We've come to think of evil as the *really* bad things, not the little evils.

Some might perceive pride as a little evil.

Some might perceive selfishness as a little evil.

But I believe pride and selfishness are HUGE evils and when we are prideful and selfish we are loving the darkness, not the light. We don't want our EVIL in the light, we want it hidden. We want what has become known as the huge evils- murderer, torturers, rapists, thieves, we want them to be the targets. We don't want our SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE evils to be seen, not even by ourselves. Yes, I said that, we don't want to see our own evils, we'd much rather see the evil of others.

Light is come into the world.

Men loved darkness.

We are COVERED in darkness and we love our darkness.

When we see the reality of our evil in the light of the Cross we can't help but surrender all that we are to our God, knowing He and HE alone can save us in His Light! We can ONLY have light through our Savior.  Any light we try to manufacture on our own is deception. 

In the Light of the Cross we know we are helpless and must rely on our Savior for life NOW and life everlasting.

Look at Your life, truly look at your life- and pray for the eyesalve that the Holy Spirit can give to us so that we may see TRUTH, that we may see the evil in ourselves and NOT hide under the cloak of darkness fooling ourselves into thinking we live in light.  Please LORD we would NOT live in darkness!

Please LORD we want YOUR LIGHT!

Bless us Father in heaven, bless us Savior, our LORD JESUS, bless us Holy Spirit with Your love.

We are filthy and without any righteousness, save us from ourselves!

Please.

Thank You all, thank all of You for such wondrous love!

Amen.