The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;
those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone. You have
multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as
with joy at the harvest, as they are glad when they divide the spoil. Isaiah
9:2-3
We haven’t even finished the first
month of 2017 and we already have a new submission for the Oxford English
Dictionary: alternative facts. I have heard of alternative opinions,
alternative perspectives, and even alternative music, but I was always taught
that opinions are opinions and facts are facts.
So it has come to this. An Orwellian
world of alternative facts that tells us “It’s all good!”
An if-it’s-on-the-internet-it must-be-true
mindset.
While I could probably be talking
about the current political situation, I am instead led to thinking about the
world of deep darkness mentioned in this verse from Isaiah. It is a world that
attacks us from all sides; world that tries to recruit us into an often
manufactured struggle; a world that survives by passing off deception as truth.
It is not my world. We are truly strangers living in a strange land.
The strange world we live in feels
more peculiar than unfamiliar. This world does not match the values or beliefs
of children of God. Perhaps we feel we are the peculiar ones. We dare not seek
the light of truth from the world in which we live. We walk in darkness and are
in need of a light.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1
How wonderful it is, how
encouraging, how hopeful, to know we have a beacon of truth shining in amidst
the swirl of alternate facts. We have a God who knows the ways of man because
He created us. He loves us and has redeemed us through the blood of Jesus and
His Spirit lives in our heart to strengthen our faith.
You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your
face, LORD, do I seek.” Psalm 27:8
This is our grace in a world that
demands adherence to the law of untruth.
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