Monday May 18 – NIGHT

Faith – night – LIGHT; seeing lamp in darkness |

The Life and Light factory is in full operation when we get to the most venerable day of the Moon, 14th of Nisan. But it was not a Monday.  There would be no calculation to bring the day Christ died to be a Monday but it was a day of the Moon being full. We have, seriously, erected no monument to Monday and it’s a good thing.

Hope – night – LIGHT; trusting stars |

When life presents challenges people look for and assistance from the realms that give them advantage.  The insect world demonstrates how their number is a reason for success.  God

‘The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number. (Deuteronomy 1:10)

When neither sun nor stars are in the sky people lose hope (Acts 27:20) and the moon does not even figure.

Love – night – LIGHT; embracing intimacy |

The rescue of humanity from darkness is a function of love.  It does not arise from God’s law or from the logical need of the lost people.  God’s rescue mission does not come from the presumed desire of humans to be saved.

Death – night – LIGHT; becoming veil of mortality |

Typically people think of God as a bowler who gets only strikes.  This explains the misguided idea that God cannot be a man (John 10:33) or appear as a creature (Genesis 18:1-2) or appear in inanimate objects (Exodus 3:2).  So even in our dark night we are not left to despair. In fact, despair serves to bring people face to face with the probability of light. God makes sure that the spiritually dead person cannot say “What light?” or “I do not know”.  Can the Fire-Rescue worker engage in their work without intimacy with the dangers the victim is experiencing?

Death opening the door to life is scandalous and foolish (1 Corinthians 1:23). The life-and-light cycle is not even controversial.  It is recorded all over the history of humanity and the sacred texts of the Jewish people. Christ’s flesh is a veil that enables the immortal to die.

by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, through His flesh, (Hebrews 10:20)

Life obviously rolls to an end and it is only the Messiah of the Bible who affirms a second birth that follows the natural birth.

yet He has now reconciled you in His body of flesh through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach– (Colossians 1:22)