THE LIGHT OF GOD’S PRESENCE | Psalm 23:3–4

Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Or maybe a favorite Christmas Story. I can't help but think of how many of the Christmas movies we love and the Christmas stories that they're about dark times and... About light breaking through the darkness. For instance, there's the beloved movie, It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart playing poor old George Bailey who... Well, he's at the end of his rope, thinking about ending his life. There's Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol about the underpaid under-appreciated clerk, Bob Cratchet, and his dying son, Tiny Tim. And there the citizens of Whoville waking about Christmas morning to discover that the Grinch has stolen all of their presents. Even a secular culture likes the story of a poor peasant baby born in a manger with a star and angels looking down. We love stories of redemption, stories of the light breaking through, and this past year has had plenty of darkness, hasn't it. The darkness of pandemic, the darkness of all the uncertainty about variants Delta and Omicron, and there's been a darkness of isolation, of violence, of unrest, of higher prices. Today, I wanna light a candle sort, a candle for us with a passage of scripture that... Well, it's not just about darkness, it's about the darkest of times, and about God's presence with us.

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