Shining through the darkness

Crepuscular Light

Beautiful

What do you call it?

systematic, scientific explanation for why light behaves in this way

we can box it away, explain it away, maximise our intelligence and minimise teh mystery, but we cannot escape the beauty

Patterns & control

human beings are funny kind of people. We think we’re really great at doing new stuff, but actually what we’re good at is noticing the patterns in things and turning that to our own adavnatge

You see that in all areas of life

science

politics

the way we live our lives

The problem is, that once we figure something out, we inevitably want to control it, to force it to do what we want, and again, we’ve been pretty successful at this, but ultimately when you treat the world like that, when you treat people like that, when you treat life like that, then you end up squeezing the life out of everything

We’re at our most dangerous when we think we’ve got it all sorted out.

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Hebrews

Religious leaders of Jesus’ day

Maybe Disciples

Definitely in the early church

Think tehy’ve got it all figured out

Then God’s light breaks through like the sun breaks through the clouds

And we’re not prepared for it, and we try to explain it away, but when those rays hit your face, you cannot deny the beauty and perfection of that love.

Moses

Peter & John

The law & the prophets

in our lives too.

God’s light still shines.

God’s love is still revealed.

God’s life still transcends all the explanations and patterns and control that we try to place around it.

Narnia - he’s not a tame lion

Application:

Pay attention: as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Turn our human nature inside out. Dwell in the mystery. Experience God’s love.

Let your light shine. Be a prophetic voice