and the light shall always overcome the darkness, even when it seems as tho there is no light
Posted by: Administrator Post date: April 5th, 2010was watching lord of the rings today (such a great movie) and watching frodo baggins and his journey to destroy this ring of darkness. got me thinking about life, my own life, others lives, and the daily constant battle we have between the light and dark surrounding us. It seems as tho that when the light becomes brighter in my life, so the dark becomes even darker…
but what brings us to this point of the battle? how do we even know we are fighting a battle of light vs dark, or for some the other way round. it hit me like a tonne of bricks just last week, as i watch amazing incredible things happen in my life, things that can only be the light of Jesus shining into my life… yet as these things, these events and great turning points in my life began to happen (and continue to) so the battle is intensified between light and dark. I find myself at home by myself and its as tho a cloud of darkness hovers above me, waiting to come and cloud up my mind.
Ive found myself on several occasions fleeing from my very own house, just to get out- break thru - this darkness and despair that seems to be awaiting me like death itself. But with this immense amount of darkening thoughts and feelings of hopelessness, i am reminded each time that the light ALWAYS overcomes the dark..
it seeps thru the cracks of our messed up, muddled minds and somehow works its way thru to the very core of our being, enabling us, enabling me- to not succumb to the dark, but to fight it off with the light of God. We are living in a battle, a constant war that will always plague us until our flesh dies, yet within the battle the power of good and light and hope triumphs over evil. we may lose a few wars, but the battle itself, is not ours to win- for it has already been won by light.
So lately, every evening as the sun goes down and the day becomes night, so it is in my mind also. i pick up my sword and fight, and if not the strength, then i flee to the safety of where the light is. Light isnt just from a globe or a power socket- it lies in each one of us. and with the good also lies the evil- its just up to us which one we choose.
And choose we must- for being flippant about the light and the dark, the good and the bad, will only end in being sucked into the evil- for evil has a beckoning voice that decieves the heart and mind. a book that im reading says this;
“still…evil fascinates, because it has no fixed meaning- it remains a floating signifier, difficult to pin down to a definitive signified. As that which is forbidden, it is often wrapped in a sense of the exotic, the surreal, and the extraodinary….that old news media axiom, ‘if it bleeds it leads,’ also extends to the larger pool of popular culture. “ (Waddel, T. 2003)
so much truth in that sentence, and yet whilst the darkness is appealing to a part of us, there is another part laid beyond that, which goes deeper then any root of evil- and that is the will to do good. yet again, im rambling on, not even sure if any of this makes sense…. but if the darkness is clouding over you, taking you into a morbid and surreal adventure, then stop and make a choice- do i want evil over good, or good over evil. and if you want the light, it will ALWAYS come in thru the cracks of our brokenness and overcome the dark.
something mayb worth thinking about.
peace to u xox
corina
