Daily devotion – Christmas removes darkness!
The first Christmas came at a dark time.
The world was filled with violence, injustice, oppression, and grief. Rome ruled with an iron fist, Herod governed cruelly, families were torn apart, and heaven itself had been silent for four hundred years. It sounds remarkably like our world today.
Yet the darkness was deeper than politics or suffering. Humanity had no answer for evil itself. No wisdom, no power, no education could cure the brokenness of the human heart.
Into that darkness God spoke:
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” (Isaiah 9:2)
Christmas does not tell us to cheer up or try harder. It does not say that if we all work together, we can fix the world. Christmas is brutally honest: humanity cannot save itself. But it is also wonderfully hopeful—because the light did not come from within us. It came from outside this world.
Jesus Christ is that Light.
“I am the light of the world,” He said. “Whoever follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (John 8:12)
This Light brings life, truth, and joy.
Life—because in Him we live and move and have our being.
Truth—because God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
Joy—because all beauty and gladness ultimately flow from Him.
“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.”
This Child is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. God Himself entered our darkness, not to condemn us, but to save us.
And on Calvary’s cruel Cross He did it for us.
We do not fight our way out of darkness—He fought for us.
He bore our sin, our guilt, our punishment, so that His light might become ours as a gift of grace.
This Christmas, the Light still shines.
The question is not whether the world is dark—it is.
The question is whether you will receive the Light.
Will you receive Him?