Working with some young adults yesterday, I met a sweet girl who is fighting the battle against the darkness in her life. It's trying to take her down. But, by the Grace of God, she has made every effort to get back into the fold of fellowship that she walked away from 10 years ago. The battle rages on, but she has recommitted her life to the Lord and walking in a way that would please Him. If you believe in the God who can transform us from the inside out, please pray with me that she have wisdom to do the right things, protection from the temptations that want to destroy her, and courage to take each step - one at a time. May we remember that even in darkness light dawns for the upright.
“And the evening and the morning were the first day.” Genesis 1:5
"The evening was “darkness” and the morning was “light,” and yet the two together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy in spiritual experience. In every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is not to be named a sinner because there is sin in him, but he is to be named a saint because he possesses some degree of holiness. This will be a most comforting thought to those who are mourning their infirmities, and who ask, “Can I be a child of God while there is so much darkness in me?”
Yes; for you, like the day, take not your name from the evening, but from the morning; and you are spoken of in the word of God as if you were even now perfectly holy as you will be soon. You are called the child of light, though there is darkness in you still. You are named after what is the predominating quality in the sight of God, which will one day be the only principle remaining.
Observe that the evening comes first. Naturally we are darkness first in order of time, and the gloom is often first in our mournful apprehension, driving us to cry out in deep humiliation, “God be merciful to me, a sinner.”
The place of the morning is second, it dawns when grace overcomes nature. It is a blessed aphorism of John Bunyan, “That which is last, lasts forever.” That which is first, yields in due season to the last; but nothing comes after the last. So that though you are naturally darkness, when once you become light in the Lord, there is no evening to follow; “thy sun shall no more go down.”
The first day in this life is an evening and a morning; but the second day, when we shall be with God, forever, shall be a day with no evening, but one, sacred, high, eternal noon." - Charles H. Spurgeon
"The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp...On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there."
Revelation 21:23, 25
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