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Break the Night

by Jerry Ousley  
3/17/2023 / Devotionals

Break the Night

By Jerry D. Ousley

 

            Darkness.  Absence of sight.  In the dark we fear those things that go bump in the night.  Terror of darkness is common.  Who wants to go into a dark basement?  Who would like to volunteer to be first into the mouth of an unknown cave flooded with the blackness of the dark?

 

            This world was plunged into the darkness of night, only a different kind of darkness.  It wasn’t blackness.  It didn’t keep our eyes from seeing.  In fact, in this dark world we still see beauty – the leftovers if you will of God’s wonderous creation at the beginning.  We see magnificent mountains, majestic stands of trees, beautiful creatures roaming about marked with appealing colors.  We witness the might of the ocean and stand in awe.

 

            Yet, this world is still in darkness.  Those magnificent peaks are filled with danger and treachery.  The forests are permeated with deadly serpents, crawling bugs that sting and bite and deadly creeping things.  The beautiful beasts will attack and eat you if you aren’t especially careful.  And the power of those oceans show no mercy. 

 

It is the direct result of what took place a few thousand years ago in a garden called Eden. The devil entered the serpent, who persuaded Eve (the first woman) to eat the forbidden fruit, and she in turn convinced Adam that God didn’t know what He was talking about and suddenly, just like that, the darkness oozed in until it covered the whole earth and all of creation.  Plant life yielded thorns and thistles, snakes grew fangs that injected poison, bees grew stingers and lions, tigers and bears became aggressive carnivores.

 

            It didn’t stop there.  Man’s heart was affected by the creeping darkness.  He now hated those who disagreed with him.  They became enemies, killing each other, making war, wanting what the other had and willing to destroy, maim and kill to get it.

 

            The ooze was called sin.  It covered everything and offered no hope.  It caused the darkness that infiltrated and then flowed from man’s heart.  Even when we want to do good it seems we always mess up.  “Why did I do that?” I ask myself.  “All I want to do is the right thing, but so often it comes out wrong.”  The darkness has doomed us.  We aren’t fit to stand before God.  We are only worthy of eternal death and in and by ourselves there is no hope.  The only solution seems to be to live with all the joy we can etch out before our death day comes.  Get what we can, we only live once.  Climb to the top regardless of others because no one will help us.  We have to do it ourselves.  It is the curse of the night.  The black consumes until there is nothing.

 

            All seems hopeless, but wait; there … in the distance.  A flicker just below the circle of the earth.  In the distant skyline.  What was that?  The Bible says, “For behold, the day s coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble.  And the day which is coming shall burn them up, ‘says the LORD of hosts,’ that will leave them neither root nor branch.”  (Malachi 4:1). The darkness can’t comprehend the light.  And so when the sun breaks in the horizon instead of being a thing of hope, it burns and destroys as it overcomes the darkness.  The darkness can’t stand the light and it will burn under its heat.  So, we are helpless in the dark and we are destroyed in the light.  Where is hope?  Where is a solution?  How can we escape our death fate?  How can we overcome?  We can’t.

 

            But wait, maybe there is hope after all.  Perhaps a narrow way of escape exists.  And it does.  The Bible further says, “But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings; and you shall go out and grow fat like stall-fed calves.”  (Malachi 4:2).  The Sun of Righteousness.  He is our hope.  He alone can rise in the distance and give us light without destroying us.

 

            Who is this Sun of Righteousness and how can we get His help?  He is none other than Jesus Christ.  He is the Sun of Righteousness because He is the Son of God.  He is the light of the world who takes away the darkness.  If we just believe in Him His sacrifice covers our sin.  He rids our lives of the ooze.  He covers us so that the light does not melt us as it does the darkness.

 

            We can break the night.  We can live in the light.  We can get rid of the ooze.  But only through Jesus Christ.  Why not do it today?  Why not choose to live in the light?

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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