flip the switch

Monday September 8th, Romans 13: 11 And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Many things can hide in the darkness. Paul goes through quite a list and it consists of greed for food and drink, greed for sexual encounter, and greed for power. These human strivings are not always seen for what they are. Most often they are under the cover of darkness and deceit. On the political sphere, games are played, on the sexual sphere, games are played, on the financial sphere, games are played, and on the personal sphere games are played. Game playing destroys community. Games have winners and losers and the ratio is never one to one. The solution is to bring things to the light, to bring things out in the open because it is there that things are seen for what they are, there that we are seen for who we are, and there that there is the possibility of hope for change and reconciliation. Hidden, there is all sorts of festering that can take place, revealed, healing and reconciliation have a chance.