The light sometimes hurts

Friday March 31st John 3: 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. Christ came into the world to bring salvation to all of humanity. God so loved the cosmos he gave his only son. Humanity still finds ways to live in the shadows. It is the shadows where we can justify a “first strike” option as something good. It is in the shadows that we reject the Kyoto accords and cover it with talk of how we are doing better in a few areas. It is in the shadows that we can pretend that what is happening in the mid-east and in the Sudan is not about maintaining a good supply of cheap gas for our cars. Looking at something in the light sometimes hurts, but as with the snake Moses held up in the wilderness, looking at it in the light is the only way we can begin to be cured.