Dark to Light: An Introduction

In the darkness, the smallest glimmer of light can change everything.

Walk outside in the country, and you’ll be overwhelmed by the darkness. The road you just traveled is hidden by the night. Shadows crowd around you, and with them, doubts. What would be beautiful or common in the light, becomes hidden and sinister in the dark.

The dark obscures and overwhelms. In the dark, fears grow wild and lies sound true. Lying awake in the middle of the night, it’s easy to believe every lie Satan has ever whispered.

In the dark, doubt takes root.

The worries of the day crowd in, and it all seems like too much.

In the shadows, in those moments when we can’t see or understand, the dark seems powerful and overwhelming. Its weight lays heavy on our shoulders. But even the tiniest flicker of light can change everything.

The flicker of a candle in a cave.

Headlights on a dark, unfamiliar road.

A flashlight in the quiet gloom just before the storm.

Light spilling from an open door, cutting a bright rectangle into the darkness, welcoming you home after a long day or a long year.

A sprinkling of stars against a blanket of black. A navy sky pierced through with the earliest rays of sunrise after the darkest night.

The darkness seems so powerful—until there’s light. Darkness is powerless against the tiniest spark. In the depths of despair and the deepest of nights, darkness seems to reign, but it cannot overcome the light.

The light changes everything.

And the Light has come.

This year, as we count down the weeks until Christmas, we'll explore how Christ illuminated our world and our hearts, coming to a deeper understanding of why He came and why it matters in our everyday lives. We'll read and meditate on short passages of Scripture six days a week, then journal about what we've learned on Saturdays.

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