You must admit, he's cute.
Proverbs 29.27 writes
An unjust man is abominable to the righteous, and he who is upright in the way is abominable to the wicked.
Matthew 13.43:
Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
Psalm 34.5:
They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces will never be ashamed.
When I read Proverbs 29 this morning and reached the end, where the word "abominable" is used twice in such short order, it made me laugh because I hardly use the word, except in reference to the snowman. But we live in a kingdom of darkness, and we are light-bearers, and darkness hates light. If we walk in righteousness we will shine into the darkness, and though the darkness tries to overcome it, it is unable (see John 1 -- Jesus, the original light, conquered the darkness and gives us the same light that He had!). In reality, darkness wars against light, and does everything in its power to snuff out and light that comes its way.
Jesus is intense light. He is the light that has come into the world to shine through the darkness and change everything. He reaches out, snatches darkened lives, and illuminates them in His beautiful way. Then they are made radiant, and pure-white, a spotless bride. Purity, that hurts the eyes...the purity of Jesus.
For Christians, we are in the world, but not of the world. We are made of the same darkness, but God's light has broken through. In reality, we should not be able to help being light in the midst of darkness, it should be natural and unstoppable. And if the light is encroaching on the darkness around us ... will we not be abominable to those around us, as the Proverb says?
Shall we not become abominable snowmen?
1 comment:
yesssss I love this. So good.
oh dear... Clarence is walking on the keyboard. He was trying to comment as well...apwrzxm
he likes you.
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