There is a problem in the world that should be obvious to us, but manages to be hard to see. It is that we do not want to see because if we see we cannot pretend that everything is okay. What is darkness? What is light? This passage shows us that the light is the Son of God. But why is the light here? He did not come to pass judgment, but to save us. The darkness is self-protection; which is an effect of the fall. We lost our ability to connect with each other as people. In order to defend ourselves, we lash out at each other because we don’t want to be found guilty. We love the darkness because we feel that it protects us from the light and truth of God. It protects us from actually knowing and acknowledging that we are not ok with who we are and what we are doing. A related piece of this protection is the protection the darkness gives us from someone who actually is trying to find us, loving us, or exposing who we really are.
The thing is that Christians can also hide in the darkness for the same reasons that unbelievers do. Somehow we don’t want to be found, but we
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I’ve searching and searching for you, but myself I don’t want to be found. You say I am. You say let go. You say believe. But it’s not that easy for me. You say wait. You say now don’t you see you 're already one foot in the ground? You say. I’ve been wicked and wild and wrong and I wonder the price of my shame. I’ve been hiding my face for so long it’s a wonder that you know my name. You say come home. You say I’m here. You say there are some things you just can’t control. You say let me. You say believe. Why do you search for the answers you already know? You say I am the way and the light and the truth. Don’t be mislead by the flight of your youth. You have faith in things you can’t seem to believe what if you had faith in me? You say rest here, this is your home can’t you see that you knew I was here all along? You