ALL Darkness Has Been Pierced!

Exodus Chapter 10

The Darkness Over Egypt:

21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness will spread over Egypt—darkness that can be felt.” 22So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or leave his place for three days. Yet all the Israelites had light in the places where they lived.

Egypt’s leader was not listening to what God was telling him to do. God told Pharaoh through Moses to “Let My People Go” because it was time for their captivity to end. But Pharaoh continued to resist God and he did not let the Israelites go free and the result was his heart was hardened. The consequences of that hard heartedness came and God allowed 7 plagues to fall on the whole land of Egypt. In the sixth plague, complete darkness fell over the whole land for three days. It says no one could see anyone else or leave their place because it was so dark you could feel it, but the Israelites who were God’s chosen people had light in their places.

It is AWESOME that this thick enveloping darkness could not overtake the light where the Israelites lived! It was pierced because they had a light from another source, and as we think about this it will bring Hope and Encouragement to us today after Christmas and everyday ahead! Even more, as we believe on this faithful provision of light from God to Israel and claim it for ourselves, it reveals an even greater and more awesome promise/assurance to everyone who belongs to God. It reveals the real truth that we can claim: That those who are God’s children endure all arrays of crippling circumstances, whether it is blackest darkness or even a death blow, because they have the LIGHT THAT LEADS TO LIFE………in them!

John Chapter 8

What is this Life Giving Light?

Even though the darkness thickens around us IT CANNOT ENTER INTO US! Though we be challenged in our faith, because it indeed is really dark, we will overcome it. Why, because we are not our own. We belong to Jesus Christ! The truth is that the darkest most crippling hours that ever existed have already come and gone and they have been PIERCED. They have been defeated! That’s why it says in 1 Corinthians 15, “Death has been swallowed up in victory. Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” Those were the hours when thick darkness enveloped Christ from Gethsemane on toward Calvary and into the Grave. THOSE WERE THE THICKEST AND DARKEST HOURS that ever existed. YET Jesus overcame because he literally is the Light of the World. In John 8:12 it says, “Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, "I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won't have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life." He also said in John 2:19, "All right, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." Jesus is saying that if we believe in him for who he claims to be and what his message is we will overcome the darkness because he has already overcome for us. He carried your and my sin because he loves us and he rose from the dead because he is literally LIFE, and darkness cannot overtake him! Therefore, if he is in us he will light us up and there cannot be any darkness in us. If we die, he will raise us to eternal life. Today, there is no reason to be ashamed of Jesus Christ or to run or hide from Jesus, but only surrender our lives to him, celebrate, talk about, give thanks to and praise him!

Today is the day after Christmas. Just like yesterday, it is one day of an every day celebration of this truth for those who have surrendered their all to Jesus Christ. The daily celebration is that the real darkness (sin) in the world and in human hearts has been PIERCED, and now there is the wonderful opportunity for the replacement of human sin and depravity for Jesus’ light and righteousness! Just imagine, little baby Jesus came into the world on that dark night, but a bright light was above him announcing his location! King Herod was full of darkness and wanted to kill baby Jesus so he ordered all 2yr old boys and younger to be killed, but baby Jesus escaped because God had a bigger plan! And the day after his birth and all through Jesus’ life he was surrounded by darkness yet his light pierced the sickness of humanity and unhealthy spirituality at all levels.

As we are becoming more and more sanctified each day until that resurrection hour he will faithfully continues to shine in us, and it will get brighter and brighter in the places where he lives. He lives in us Not because of who we are but because of who he is. Jesus said, in John 17:26, “I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

The Death Blow of Christ on the cross was indeed awesome and the Devil thought HE had won. The disciples were scattered and the sorrow was GREAT. And even their hope was waning, but TRUTH is thicker than blood because God the Father was watching. The darkness in Jesus tomb that day was pierced and his light became available to all of us. Today God is still watching, and waiting for anyone, no matter their nationality, their religion, their gender identity, their economic status, no matter, to respond to his call: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28


Merry Christmas to you on the day after Christmas! And may the Light of Life, who is Jesus Christ, pierce the darkness in you and me and the world in 2010.