There is an abandoned railroad tunnel not far from our college. One’s eyes adjust to the dimming light as one treks into its heart of darkness but soon even the keenest of eyes find it difficult to make out what might be painted on the old rock walls. Eventually there is not enough light to even see one’s own hand held before one’s face. But then as one nears the opposite end, the light increases, the shadows decrease and how glorious it is to step out into the light.
Tunnels are like human’s experience with God. Adam and Eve started in the light of Eden. God came and walked and talked with them. They knew who He was and what He was like. But after sin they lost that privilege and following generations walked deeper into the darkness of forgetting His loving nature. Men fashioned God into their twisted image and He became, in human minds, a vengeful being filled with human traits. People did terrible things to each other and perceived it to be God’s will. Lucifer lied to people about God, smeared God’s good name. Lucifer did evil things and blamed it on God. For thousands of years the truth about God was lost in the shadows of human sin, greed, selfishness and aggression.
Then something absolutely amazing happened. Angels appeared in the sky outside a small village and sang gloriously about a birth. It was time to tell the truth about God. It was time to flood the world with the light of His true nature and to stop blaming the corruption of the world on Him. Jesus came. He and He alone was and is a photograph of the Father. Emmanuel, God with us. If we have seen Jesus we have seen the Father. Please see Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Written by Roger Bothwell on June 17, 2011
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