Shadow or Darkness or a Prism: Is there a difference?
Recently while watching a live performance, this was stated in the show “Absence of light is shaddow” instead of what we usually hear “absence of light is darkness”. When you are tangled in sin, you are in the shadows. Shadows appear when the light is behind you and shining all around you but not through you and it creates a shadow. It looks like you, moves and mimics your actions, is unable to speak but clearly visible. You can’t touch it and you can’t capture it and when moved into the light it disappears. Much like when sin entangles us, we are in the shadows of God.
We can see the light behind us but the darkness looks more inviting because its not dark to you. It is in the form of a mirage of whatever your eyes lust for – wealth, fame, friends, cars, houses, extra-marital affairs, the next drink or high, the next adrenaline rush, a new body, a new outfit. Whatever you desire begins to shadow you from God. If you aren’t careful it will totally envelope you in darkness until something or someone breaks that illusion for you. You are discovered at whatever you were trying to conceal, you overdose, you get a DUI or that outfit only served to lead you deeper into sin. Then you the vessel, you are broken into a thousand shards of glass. Rough around the edges but still useful to see God’s glory.
As you start to repair that broken person and God is starting to glue you back together, you start to change. The envy you finally gave up has a green color, the kindness you showed has a blue tint, the angry moments are red, the pride is orange, and love is pink and so on. God begins the work of putting you back together with the best glue in the world – Jesus’ blood. As He pieces you back together and it takes some time because you were broken into a thousand pieces, The shape starts to take and He is creating a new vessel that is beautiful, colorful, stronger and useful once more, Each color He pieces back together represents a healed part of you. You healed from the hurt you recieved from your spouse and that piece is yellow. The purple glass is you finally feeling respected. When you forgave someone who hurt you that piece became white. God’s timing is perfect in His repair and when He is finished with you, you become a prism that shines for as the light from God’s glory shines on you and bounces to everyone who encounters the new creation.
Shadows are not so scary because you still have some light. When darkness falls, its so dark you see no way out. You need to surround yourself with people who will shine light on your path when your batteries have died or just forgot your flashlight (God’s word). When Jesus returns where do you want to be: in the shadows, engulfed in the darkness or in THE light?
Psalm 119:105 says “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. And a light unto my path.” Be a blessing today!